Recent advances in millimeter-wave photonic wireless links for very high data rate communication

C.-L. Pan; C. W. Chow; C. H. Yeh; C. B. Huang; J. W. Shi

doi:10.1117/12.903697

29 November 2011 Recent advances in millimeter-wave photonic wireless links for very high data rate communication

C.-L. Pan, C. W. Chow, C. H. Yeh, C. B. Huang, J. W. Shi

Proceedings Volume 8307, Passive Components and Fiber-Based Devices VIII; 83071B (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.903697
Event: SPIE/OSA/IEEE Asia Communications and Photonics, 2011, Shanghai, China

Abstract

To provide integrated and high quality broadband services, higher carrier frequencies are required in wireless communications. Currently, there is a great deal of interests in wireless communications at sub-terahertz or terahertz frequencies, i.e., the millimeter-wave (MMW) or sub-millimeter-wave (sub-MMW). In this work, we will discuss our recent advances in millimeter-wave photonic wireless links for high data rate (10 - 20 Gb/s) communications. The concept of fiber-to-the-antenna (FTTA) system using radio-over-fiber (ROF) technologies will be given in the introduction. Then a design and the structure of the high speed MMW photonic transmitter, namely near-ballistic unitraveling- carrier photodiode (NBUTC-PD), will be discussed in section 2. In section 3, the operation principle of photonic mm-wave waveform generator (PMWG), which is used to produce the optical pulse train for the photonic transmitter at the antenna-site will be illustrated. We then demonstrate the use of the NBUTC-PD and the PMWG for the downstream and upstream high data rate communications in the W-band.

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C.-L. Pan, C. W. Chow, C. H. Yeh, C. B. Huang, and J. W. Shi "Recent advances in millimeter-wave photonic wireless links for very high data rate communication", Proc. SPIE 8307, Passive Components and Fiber-Based Devices VIII, 83071B (29 November 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.903697

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