Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Ik-Soo Chang

Young Kyoo Kim

Seong-Hoon Lee

Soon-Chul Jeong

Jong-Tae Park

Hong-Kee Kim

Chul-Dong Kim

Young-Kon Lee

Seung-Won Chung

Yong-chae Jeong

A device and a method for combining outputs of a plurality of linear power amplifiers while preventing loss of signals. The combined linear power amplifying device, including: a power divider module which has paths connected respectively between one input terminal and a plurality of output terminals and switches connected respectively to each of the output terminals, for dividing power of a RF signal input to the power divider module and respectively outputting the divided power to the output terminals; a power combiner module which has paths connected respectively between a plurality of input terminals and one output terminal and the switches connected respectively to each of the input terminals, for combining power of a RF signal input to the power combiner module and outputting the combined power; and linear power amplifiers which are connected between the output terminals of the power divider module and the input terminals of the power combiner module, for linearly amplifying the RF signal power-divided in the power divider module thereby outputting the linearly amplified signal to the power combiner module, and upon generation of a failed state of the linear power amplifiers, the failed amplifier opening the path of the affected RF signal by turning off the corresponding switches in said power divider module and said power combiner module.

Combined linear power amplifying device and method

A feedforward-type linear power amplifier directly compares amplitude and phase of a signal applied to one input end of a first signal canceler with amplitude and phase of a signal applied to another input end of the first signal canceler, and according to the comparison results, controls a first variable attenuator and a first variable phase shifter disposed in a pre-stage of the first signal canceler so that the first signal canceler extracts only the intermodulation distortion signals generated while a main power amplifier amplifies the RF input signal. Then, the linear power amplifier directly compares amplitude and phase of the intermodulation distortion signal on a main path with amplitude and phase of the intermodulation distortion signal on a sub path, and according thereto, controls a third variable attenuator and a third variable phase shifter to cancel the intermodulation distortion signals contained in the RF output signal of the main power amplifier.

Linear power amplifier and method for canceling intermodulation

A linear power amplifier and method for removing the intermodulation distortion with a predistortion system and a feed forward system. The linear power amplifier having a main power amplifier includes: a predistortion system for firstly suppressing the intermodulation signal generated upon amplification of an RF signal in the main power amplifier, by generating a harmonics corresponding to the input RF signal and a predistortion signal with coupling the RF signal to the harmonics; and a feed forward system for secondly suppressing the intermodulation signal by canceling the input RF signal and the output of the main power amplifier, extracting an intermodulation signal distortion, error-amplifying the extracted intermodulation signal distortion, and coupling the amplified intermodulation signal with the output of the main power amplifier.

Linear power amplifier and method for removing intermodulation

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Ik-Soo Chang