Influence of phase and gainimbalances on recombined signals in LINC transmitters

Author

Wang, Hui ; Liu, Taijun ; Ye, Yan ; Xu, Tiefeng

Author_Institution

Coll. of Inf. Sci. & Eng., Ningbo Univ., Ningbo, China

fYear

2009

fDate

20-21 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

423

Lastpage

426

Abstract

This paper discusses the influence of phase and gain imbalances between two branches of LINC transmitter on the recombined signals. Experiments are carried out on a model of LINC transmitter using a 3 dB Wilkinson RF combiner which is designed with micro-strip line. Then the phase and gain errors that can be tolerated in the LINC transmitter with high efficiency and good linearity are discussed. The signal used in the validation experiment is a two-carrier WCDMA signal with the sample rate of 61.44 M Sample/s. The Validation results demonstrate that the correction for phase and gain imbalances is necessary in LINC transmitter.

Keywords

code division multiple access; microstrip lines; power amplifiers; radio transmitters; LINC transmitter; WCDMA signal; Wilkinson RF combiner; gain imbalance; linear amplification; microstrip line; nonlinear component; phase imbalance; Educational institutions; Linearity; OFDM modulation; Phase modulation; Power amplifiers; RF signals; Radio frequency; Radio transmitters; Radiofrequency amplifiers; Wireless communication; LINC; gain imbalance; phase imbalance; power amplifier; transmitter;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information, Computing and Telecommunication, 2009. YC-ICT '09. IEEE Youth Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5074-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-5076-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/YCICT.2009.5382327

Filename

5382327