Sources of linearity degradation in LINC transmitters for hybrid and outphasing combiners

Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering

Volumn 1, Issue , 2004, Pages 0547-0550

  Birafane, A ^a   Kouki, A B ^a  

^a LaCIME Laboratory   (Canada)

Author keywords

LINC amplifier; Linearity; Transmitter

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CODE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EFFICIENCY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; HYBRID COMPUTERS; KALMAN FILTERING; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; RADIO FREQUENCY AMPLIFIERS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

ADVANCED DESIGN SYSTEMS (ADS); LINC TRANSMITTERS; LINEARITY DEGRADATION; OUTPHASING;

TRANSMITTERS;

EID: 4944250237     PISSN: 08407789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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