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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Pre-distortion"”.
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Digital Pre-Distortion: The Implementation, Minimisation, & Estimation
… technique can be applied to a PA. Digital Pre-Distortion (DPD) has been widely demonstrated in industry and academia to perform linearisation. Some issues concerning DPD are related to implementation efficiency, robust function estimation and the complexity of DPD solutions. This …
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Fast Adaptive Digital Pre-Distortion Scheme for Application in Cellular Base Station Power Amplifiers
… necessary to design fast and noncomplex digital pre-distorters that are able to achieve and maintain acceptable linearization performance and compensate for the dynamic distortions generated by the PA. This thesis explores an adaptive DPD scheme using multiple models that combines a switching and …
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Linear Operation of Switch-Mode Outphasing Power Amplifiers
… within outphasing power amplifiers which prevent linear amplification. From the analysis it was clear that high power non-linear effects are correctable with currently available techniques however non-linear effects around the zero crossing point are not. As a result signal processing …
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Very High Speed Coherent Passive Optical Networks
… of the power budget, linear and non-linear pre-distortion techniques are in- vestigated. The solution with the balanced photodiode exceeds the E1 class power budget requirement (>33 dB), whereas the single ended photodiode solution meets the N1 class requirement (29 dB). This is supported by …
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Optimal nonlinear digital signal processing : a dynamical systems approach
… generating optimal outputs with arbitrary precision is proposed. The second part contains analysis of the nonlinear distortion introduced into the base-band (discrete-time) input-output dynamics of the communication systems by the (continuous-time) power amplifier nonlinearity. It is shown …
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Digitally-assisted, efficiency enhanced, linear RF power amplifier architectures
This dissertation presents the use of advanced digital techniques in the development of efficiency enhanced, linearized power amplifier (PA) architectures. In this research, digital enhancements are used to boost the efficiency of a dual-input LDMOS Doherty PA of 500W peak power. It is shown that …
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New strategies for low noise, agile PLL frequency synthesis
… design of frequency synthesisers is to generate precise and stable output frequencies with fast switching and minimal spurious and phase noise. The conflict between high resolution and fast switching leads to two separate integer synthesisers to satisfy critical system requirements. This thesis …
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Analytical Modeling and Design of High-Efficiency Input-Output Harmonic Tuned Microwave Power Amplifiers
… amplifier design methodologies have been comprehensively investigated by exploring and exploiting the input and output nonlinearities of the device. In particular, the impact of input nonlinearity on the PA performance is addressed comprehensively, and the efficiency minima phenomenon due to …
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OWSS And MIMO-STC-OFDM: Signaling Systems for the Next Generation of High Speed Wireless LANs
… to create MIMO-OFDM systems. This dissertation presents two different basis technologies for the next generation of high speed WLANs: OWSS and MIMO-STC-OFDM. OWSS, or Orthogonal Wavelet Division Multiplexed - Spread Spectrum is a new class of wavelet pulses and a corresponding signaling system …
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High-Speed Low-Voltage Line Driver for SerDes Applications
… specification was decided to be an accurate representation of future requirements that a line driver in a SerDes device will have to conform to. A suitable line driver with a differential output was identified to meet the demanding specifications and was modified so that it can perfonn an …
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Broadband and Energy-Efficient Power Amplifier Architectures
… in the TLLM amplifier and a complete and comprehensive design procedure is provided for designing broadband TLLM amplifiers. Three different amplifier prototypes are also implemented using the TLLM architecture showing its performance and capability. The second architecture proposed in this …
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High Speed Wavelength Tuning of SGDBR Lasers for Optical Coherence Tomography Applications
… OCT and to even exceed the capability of present swept-wavelength OCT source solutions. SGDBR lasers were originally developed for telecommunications applications using Wavelength Division Multiplexing. In the telecommunications application, the wide wavelength tuning range of the device …