A cascaded high-voltage high-frequency linear amplifier for power transmission line measurement.

• This article realizes the simultaneous output of high-voltage high-frequency excitation for transmission line measurement. • The proposed differential linear cascaded amplifier topology breaks through the limitation of gain bandwidth product. • Designing appropriate isolation voltage for cascaded power supply can meet different testing voltage requirements. • The parallel fiber optic isolation cascade method breaks through the kHz limitation of high-voltage amplifiers. In this paper, a high-frequency and high-voltage linear cascaded amplifier based on parallel optical fiber isolation is proposed. The electro-optical synchronous drive of the excitation signal is realized through equal proportional laser splitting, which achieves the same linear gain and output phase shift in each photoelectric conversion unit. The differential linear cascade topology designed in this paper effectively solves the gain bandwidth product limitation and achieves a high-voltage linear output in a high-frequency range. The new amplifier solves the problem that due to the low AC excitation voltage of traditional impedance analyzer, the signal attenuation is severe in long distance and high insulation distributed electrical parameter network. It can be widely used to measure high-frequency dielectric loss and impedance spectrum for dielectric materials and electrical components in industry and laboratory. By cascading n -stage amplifier units, the voltage gain can reach 6n times. Finally, a 16-stage cascade amplifier is built, and the response characteristics are tested with the distributed electrical parameter network loads. The output characteristics show that the expected amplifier gain can be obtained accurately in the high-frequency range of 100 kHz–100 MHz, the output voltage can reach 192Vpp, and the peak current can reach ±500 mA. The maximum of the curve about THD and noise versus frequency could be limited to 0.49 %, which could meet the needs of on-site measurement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]