This work describes the comparison of the amplification characteristics (gain) and the Noise figure (NF) of the Thulium and Erbium in three different host materials which the Yttria Alumina-Silica glass, Fluoride and Tellurite fiber glass. The gain using these host materials covers the range 1.45-1.65 μm. Thulium doped fiber amplifier (TDFAs) operated in the region of wavelength (1480-1510 nm) ...

A low noise amplifier for UWB and broadband applications is presented. The active dual loop negative feedback architecture dissevers the severe tradeoff existing between the input impedance, gain and noise figure, and produces a flat S11 across the entire band. The L#A is composed of a voltage amplifying negative feedback amplifier with a transconductance amplifier forming a shunt-shunt feedbac...

This paper describes cryogenic broadband amplifier with very low noise for the frequency band 1.5-4.5 GHz. At 15 K the twostage InP-based amplifier has a gain of 28+/-2 dB dB and a noise temperature below 5 K. For a narrower band of 2-4 GHz at 15 K the measured gain is 30.0+/-0.8 dB and noise temperature is 1.5 K. The total DC power consumption of the amplifier is 6.8 mW. A lattice matched stru...

Abstract This paper presents a high-power inverted Doherty power amplifier for broader operational bandwidth. After analyzing two operation modes according to the load modulation of the Doherty power amplifier, the inverted Doherty structure was selected. In the design, the load impedances for optimum broadband characteristics at both the back-off and peak power levels. The Doherty power amplif...

This paper presents a D-band power amplifier for highspeed communication system. The capacitive effect of interconnection via on transistor performance at high frequency is analyzed and a new via structure is employed to reduce the capacitive effect. The on-chip matching technique for high frequency amplifier is analyzed and the thin-film microstrip line matching network is used, which is combi...

In this paper, the full-wave analysis and experimental verification of a waveguide-based aperture-coupled patch amplifier array are presented. The spatial power-combining amplifier array is modeled by the decomposition of the entire system into several electromagnetically coupled modules. This includes a method of moments integral equation formulation of the generalized scattering matrix (GSM) ...

In this article, we present a complex baseband model for a wideband power amplifier that incorporates carrier frequency dependent amplitude modulation (AM) and phase modulation (PM) (i.e., AM/AM and AM/PM) characteristics in the design process. The structure used to implement the amplifier model is a Wiener system which accounts for memory effects caused by the frequency selective nature of the...

This paper shows the results of research on the optical control of a GaAs chip monolithic amplifier, and is an extension of previous work by our group in the field of optical-microwave interaction [1-3]. The amplifier was originally designed for the transmitter stage of an indoor mobile communications system in the 2.4 GHz band. The possibilities of optical control of this amplifier are evidenc...

As discussed in Chapter 1, in an outphasing power amplifier system, the AM of a bandpass waveform is transformed into PM of two signals prior to power amplification, and finally recovered by recombining the two amplified signals. As shown in Figure 1.16, with this approach, two highly efficient nonlinear power amplifiers can be used without distorting the original signal. This is the main advan...

A biopotential acquisition analog front-end (AFE) integrated circuit (IC) is presented. The biopotential AFE includes a capacitively coupled chopper instrumentation amplifier (CCIA) to achieve low input referred noise (IRN) and to block unwanted DC potential signals. A DC servo loop (DSL) is designed to minimize the offset voltage in the chopper amplifier and low frequency respiration artifacts...