Patent ID: 7761070

Claim:
An amplifier device comprising: a plurality of amplifiers, each of said amplifiers having an amplifier input supplied with an input signal and an amplifier output at which the input signal supplied thereto is emitted an amplified input signal; an output matrix having a plurality of output matrix inputs respectively connected to said amplifiers, each output matrix input being supplied with the amplified input signal from the amplifier connected thereto, and said output matrix comprising a plurality of output matrix outputs respectively corresponding to said plurality of output matrix inputs, each of said output matrix outputs emitting an output signal, and said output matrix outputs forming respective outputs of said amplifier device; said output matrix causing each of said amplified input signals to supply an output signal contribution to each of said output signals with each of said output signal contributions having an output-side contribution phase offset relative to the amplified input signal at the output matrix input corresponding to the output matrix output at which the output signal is present, each output-side contribution phase offset being dependent on each amplified input signal that includes a contribution to that output signal, as well as being dependent on that output signal; and each of said amplifiers producing an amplified input signal that is a sinusoidal alternating signal, with the respective amplified input signals produced by the respective amplifiers being uniform in amplitude and frequency and respectively having phase offsets relative to each other, with one of said amplified input signals having a signal phase offset that compensates for the output-side contribution phase offset of one of said output signals at one of said output matrix outputs corresponding to the output matrix input to which said one of said amplified input signals is supplied, and the respective output-side contribution phase offsets produced by said output matrix being set to produce respective output signal contribution components at a remainder of said output signals that, in total, compensate for each other.