New relay equipment for a tunnel relay system used in an 800 MHz band land mobile telephone network has been developed. Significant improvements in size and power consumption have been achieved using a predistortion (PD) circuit to compensate for third-order intermodulation (IM) distortion generated in the power amplifier. This predistortion circuit features a simple configuration and easy adjustment, as well as high distortion reduction performance. The circuit configuration is derived from an analysis based on a complex power series representation of input-output nonlinearities for microwave transistor amplifiers. This analysis shows that two kinds of nonlinearities, AM-AM and AM-PM conversions, are uniquely related through the third-order distortion phase, In addition, an automatically controlled predistortion system is introduced to establish an adjustment and maintenance-free compensator. Using the developed predistortion circuit, a stable distortion reduction of more than 20 dB per 25 MHz bandwidth has been attained.
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