Saleh’s model of AM/AM and AM/PM conversions is not a model without memory – another proof

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  • Andrzej Marek Borys Gdynia Maritime University

Abstract

The so-called Saleh’s representation for description of the AM/AM and AM/PM conversions, occurring in communication power amplifiers, consists of two expressions that describe them as functions of a real-valued baseband signal modulating the carrier amplitude. It is a common view that this description forms a model without memory. We show here that the above belief is not correct; just the opposite is true.  To prove this, we take into account an equivalent description of the Saleh’s model called the quadrature model of bandpass nonlinearities and express it in a form of a nonlinear operator. Afterwards, we check whether this operator possesses a zero memory. To this end, we use an appropriate theorem of the nonlinear systems theory. Finally, as a result of this investigation, we observe that the memory of the above operator is nonzero.

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2017-01-16

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Telecommunications