Prediction of carrier to intermodulation performance

Closed-form expressions correlating the carrier to intermodulation performance, of two SCPC systems, with the simple two-carrier measurements are obtained. It is assumed that the high power amplifiers are exhibiting both amplitude non-linearity and AM/PM conversion characteristics. The high power amplifier is modelled by a quadrature model, which is mathematically represented by two sets of sine functions. Special eases are considered where curve fitting techniques, usually used to find the parameters of the sine function representations, can be totally avoided.