An optical link for W-band transmit/receive applications

Author

Niehenke, E.C. ; Herczfeld, P.

Author_Institution

Electronic Sensors & Syst. Div., Northrop Grumman, Baltimore, MD, USA

Volume

1

fYear

1997

Firstpage

35

Abstract

This paper describes the design, fabrication, and evaluation of a low noise optical link for W-band transmit/receive applications. The optical link is at Ku-band with an input power of 5 mW, compatible with the direct frequency coherent synthesizer, followed with low-cost MMIC /spl times/6 for W-band output of 70 mW and /spl times/3 for the W-band /spl times/2 subharmonic mixer with an output power of 32 mW. A diode pumped YAG laser at 1319 nm is modulated with a Mach-Zehnder modulator at Ku band and detected with PIN diode photodetector. The measured Ku band phase noise floor of -145 dBc/Hz was obtained with a projected W-band phase noise of -129.4 dBc/Hz.

Keywords

MMIC frequency convertors; optical fibre communication; phase noise; transceivers; Ku-band; MMIC multiplier; Mach-Zehnder modulator; PIN diode photodetector; W-band transmit/receive; diode pumped YAG laser; direct frequency coherent synthesizer; optical link; phase noise; subharmonic mixer; Diodes; Frequency synthesizers; Laser excitation; MMICs; Optical design; Optical device fabrication; Optical fiber communication; Optical noise; Phase noise; Power generation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Symposium Digest, 1997., IEEE MTT-S International

Conference_Location

Denver, CO, USA

ISSN

0149-645X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3814-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWSYM.1997.604424

Filename

604424