Patent ID: 7486141

Claim:
A wide bandwidth, high power amplifier system for amplifying a signal, in a bandwidth range within the frequency range from the HF band (1 MHz) up to the millimeter-wave band (100 GHz), received at an input port defining an input port impedance and delivering the amplified signal to an output port defining an output impedance, said amplifier system comprising: A) a plurality of amplifier modules, B) a first plurality of more than two transformers connected in series in a non-binary architecture, defining a series of input transformers, with each transformer of said first plurality of transformers adapted to provide an input signal to one amplifier module in said plurality of amplifier modules, said series of input transformers adapted to receive an input signal from an input port, C) a second plurality of more than two transformers connected in series in a non-binary architecture with each transformer of said second plurality of transformers adapted to receive an input signal from one amplifier module in said plurality of amplifier modules, said series of output transformers adapted to transmit an amplified output signal to an output port, wherein said series of input transformers, are adapted to provide a collective impedance matched approximately to said input impedance and said series of output transformers are adapted to provide a collective impedance matched approximately to said output impedance.