Analyzing and Optimizing the EIRP of a Phase-Tunable Amplifier-Antenna Array

Veli-Pekka Kutinlahti; Anu Lehtovuori; Ville Viikari

doi:10.1109/JMW.2022.3207952

Analyzing and Optimizing the EIRP of a Phase-Tunable Amplifier-Antenna Array

Veli-Pekka Kutinlahti^*
, Anu Lehtovuori
, Ville Viikari

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

We analyze the performance of an amplifier-antenna array by using separately measured amplifier load-pull data and antenna S-parameters and port-specific radiation patterns. We show that the effective isotropic radiated power (EIRP) of the system can be improved by using phase values which differ from progressive phase shift. Maximum EIRP improvement is 1.1 dB in certain steer directions and over 0.5 dB improvement over a large beamsteering range was measured when compared to using the progressive phase-shift envelope.

Original language	English
Article number	9913067
Pages (from-to)	52-59
Number of pages	8
Journal	IEEE Journal of Microwaves
Volume	3
Issue number	1
Early online date	1 Nov 2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/JMW.2022.3207952
Publication status	Published - 6 Jan 2023
MoE publication type	A1 Journal article-refereed

Keywords

Antenna arrays
Couplings
Antenna measurements
Phased arrays
Antennas
Transmission line measurements
Antenna feeds

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