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A Design of Ultra Wide-Band Feedforward Amplifier Using Equal Group-Delayed Signal Canceller  

Jeong Yong-Chae (School of Electronics & Information Engineering, IDEC WG, Chonbuk National University)
Ahn Dal (Division of Information Technology Engineering, Soonchunhyang University)
Kim Hong-Gi (Sewon Telectech, Inc)
Kim Chul-Dong (Sewon Teletech, Inc)
Chang Ik-Soo (Dept. of Electronics Engineering, Sogang University)
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Abstract
In this paper, a new signal canceller that input signals are equally group-delayed and cancelled each other is proposed and feedforward linearizing power amplifier that adopt the proposed signal cancellers is fabricated. Although the conventional signal canceller can't matches the phase and the group delay time of input signals simultaneously, the proposed signal canceller matches those simultaneously. Simultaneous matching of the phase and the group delay time can makes wideband signal cancellation. The main signal cancellation loop of the fabricated feedforward amplifier with the proposed signal cancellers cancel input signal more than 26.3 dB and the intermodulation distortion signal cancellation loop cancel more than 15.2 dB for 200 MHz bandwidth. And the proposed feedforward power amplifier improves C/I ratio by 20.8 dB with two tones at 2,115 MHz, 2,165 MHz, respectively.
Keywords
Signal Canceller; Feedforward; Linear Power Amplifier; C/I;
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