功率放大器种类介绍(英文).pdf

CHAPTER 2 POWER AMPLIFIER 2.0 Introduction The main characteristics of an amplifier are Linearity, efficiency, output power, and signal gain. In general, there is a trade off between these characteristics. For example, improving amplifier’s linearity will degrade its efficiency. Therefore knowing the importance degree of each one of these characteristics is an essential step in designing an Amplifier. This can be jugged based on the application. As an example high output power Amplifier is used in the transmitter side of a transceiver, whereas high linear amplifier used in the receiver side. An amplifier is said to be linear if it preserves the details of the signal waveform, that is to say, V (t ) A V (t ) (2.1) o i where, V and V are the input and output signals respectively, and A is a constant gain i o representing the amplifier gain. But if the relationship between V and V contains the higher i o power of V, then the amplifier produces nonlinear distortion. i The amplifier’s efficiency is a measure of its ability to convert the dc power of the supply into the signal power delivered to the load. The definition of the efficiency can be represented in an equation form as Signal power delivered to load h . (2.2) DC power Supplied to output circuit 4 5 For an ideal amplifier, the efficiency is one. Thus