Bandwidth reduction in dynamic load-modulated power amplifiers: control and RF signal expansion, efficiency and linearity trade-offs

Author

Mimis, Konstantinos ; Watkins, Gavin T.

Author_Institution

Toshiba Res. Eur. Ltd., Bristol, UK

fYear

2015

fDate

25-28 Jan. 2015

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

This paper presents an experimental investigation of the effect of bandwidth reduction for baseband control signals used in dynamic load-modulated (DLM) amplifiers. Using a low-power reactively DLM architecture operating at 2.35GHz the effect of control signal filtering on efficiency, output power and adjacent channel power ratio (ACPR) of the system is shown for various signal bandwidths. The method is applied on WCDMA and LTE signals showing a degradation of 2-4 percentage points (pp) in efficiency, 0.5dB lower output power and similar ACPR performance for reducing the bandwidth of the control signal by 70%.

Keywords

Long Term Evolution; UHF power amplifiers; code division multiple access; LTE signals; RF signal expansion; WCDMA; adjacent channel power ratio; bandwidth reduction; baseband control signals; control signal filtering; dynamic load-modulated power amplifiers; efficiency; frequency 2.35 GHz; linearity trade-offs; low-power reactively DLM architecture; output power; Linearity; Multiaccess communication; Power generation; Radio frequency; Spread spectrum communication; Wideband; Power amplifiers; bandwidth limiting; dynamic load-modulation; high efficiency amplifiers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Amplifiers for Wireless and Radio Applications (PAWR), 2015 IEEE Topical Conference on

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PAWR.2015.7139198

Filename

7139198