Power Gain - Operating Power Gain

Operating Power Gain

The operating power gain of a two-port network, GP, is defined as:

where

  • Pload is the maximum time averaged power delivered to the load, where the maximization is over the load impedance, i.e., we desire the load impedance which maximizes the time averaged power delivered to the load.
  • Pinput is the time averaged power entering the network

If the time averaged input power depends on the load impedance, one must take the maximum of the ratio--not just the maximum of the numerator.

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