Consequences of port mismatch and finite isolation on power combining

@inproceedings{citeulike:2762237, abstract = {In solid-state power amplification, power combining is an important issue since the output powers from individual transistors are too small for many transmission applications. An important aspect of power combining is the combining efficiency being the ratio of the power delivered to the load to that available from the sources connected to the input. In a practical power combiner, waves incident on the input ports are scattered to all ports including the output port. The paper discusses the effects of port mismatch and finite combiner isolation on combining efficiency. For a lossless power combiner, it is shown that the efficiency may be optimised by optimising the matching at the combiner output}, author = {Eccleston, K. W. }, booktitle = {Singapore ICCS '94. Conference Proceedings.}, citeulike-article-id = {2762237}, doi = {10.1109/ICCS.1994.474069}, journal = {Singapore ICCS '94. Conference Proceedings.}, keywords = {combining, power}, pages = {246--250 vol.1}, posted-at = {2008-05-06 19:34:22}, priority = {2}, title = {Consequences of port mismatch and finite isolation on power combining}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICCS.1994.474069}, volume = {1}, year = {1994} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:2762237 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2762237 TI - Consequences of port mismatch and finite isolation on power combining T2 - Singapore ICCS '94. Conference Proceedings. JF - Singapore ICCS '94. Conference Proceedings. VL - 1 SP - 246 EP - 250 vol.1 N2 - In solid-state power amplification, power combining is an important issue since the output powers from individual transistors are too small for many transmission applications. An important aspect of power combining is the combining efficiency being the ratio of the power delivered to the load to that available from the sources connected to the input. In a practical power combiner, waves incident on the input ports are scattered to all ports including the output port. The paper discusses the effects of port mismatch and finite combiner isolation on combining efficiency. For a lossless power combiner, it is shown that the efficiency may be optimised by optimising the matching at the combiner output KW - combining KW - power AU - Eccleston, KW PY - 1994/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICCS.1994.474069 ER -