High-Efficiency GaN-Based Power Amplifiers for Envelope Nonlinearities’ Mitigation in VHF Wideband Polar-Mode Transmitters

Author:

Patiño-Gómez Moisés1ORCID,Ortega-González Francisco-Javier1

Affiliation:

1. Radio Engineering Group, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Nikola Tesla s/n, 28031 Madrid, Spain

Abstract

Space-based communications at the very high frequency (VHF) band for air traffic management is a new technology application under development that requires energy-efficient architectures to mitigate the power limitations of satellite platforms. The usage of high-efficiency radiofrequency (RF) transmitters can help reduce the power consumption, but nonlinearities concerning the amplified signal in wide fractional bandwidth systems are a problem to solve. This paper proposes a high-efficiency (RF) power amplifier (PA) for satellite communications at the VHF band that aims to reduce the envelope distortion inherent to wide fractional bandwidth multicarrier polar-mode transmitters. Its design is based on a solution called hybrid-coupled switching voltage PA in combination with gallium nitride (GaN) high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) technology. The developed VHF PA prototype delivers up to 95 W from a 28 V power supply, with a drain efficiency about 80% within the 118 MHz to 138 MHz operating band. To test its linearity performance, operating in a polar-mode configuration, a GaN-based wideband envelope amplifier (EA) has been developed to modulate the RF PA supply port. This EA improves its power efficiency by combining it with a slow envelope power supply (SEPS). Some measurements have been taken for a 100 W peak envelope power (PEP) and 10 MHz (maximum carrier spacing) four-tone digitally-modulated test signal, where any distortion product is attenuated 46 dB below the average power of the amplified signal without applying any digital predistortion (DPD) technique.

Publisher

MDPI AG

Subject

Electrical and Electronic Engineering,Computer Networks and Communications,Hardware and Architecture,Signal Processing,Control and Systems Engineering

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