Title :
90GHz polarization-division duplex RF transceiver for multi-gigabit transmission
Author :
Kwangseon Kim ; Minsoo Kang ; Bonsu Kim ; Woojin Byun ; Hyungchul Park
Author_Institution :
Electron. & Telecommun. Res. Inst., Daejeon, South Korea
Abstract :
This paper presents a novel 90 GHz band RF transceiver using polarization-division duplex (PDD) technology. A PDD architecture is used for full-duplex communication in the single band. The RF transceiver can deliver 6 Gbps through six channels with a bandwidth of 3 GHz. The channel bandwidth is 500 MHz. A IF combining structure is used for multi-channel. To implement the system, a fourth-harmonically pumped mixer for RF up/down-conversion and a low-noise amplifier monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMIC) are implemented using a 0.1 μm gallium arsenide pseudomorphic high-electron-mobility transistor (GaAs pHEMT) process. RF transceiver has an output P1dB of 15dBm and a noise figure of below 8dB. Experimental results of RF test-bed show that the system can achieve a good performance at the 16 quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) transmission of both Single Carrier and orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) method.
Keywords :
OFDM modulation; high electron mobility transistors; polarisation; quadrature amplitude modulation; radio transceivers; telecommunication channels; MMIC; OFDM method; PDD architecture; QAM transmission; RF up/down-conversion; channel bandwidth; fourth-harmonically pumped mixer; frequency 900 GHz; full-duplex communication; gallium arsenide pseudomorphic high-electron-mobility transistor; low-noise amplifier monolithic microwave integrated circuits; multigigabit transmission; orthogonal frequency- division multiplexing; pHEMT process; polarization-division duplex RF transceiver; polarization-division duplex technology; quadrature amplitude modulation; Band-pass filters; Mixers; Noise figure; OFDM; Radio frequency; Transceivers; Wireless communication; Digital Modulation; MMIC; PDD; RF Transceiver; W-band;
Conference_Titel :
Microwave Conference (EuMC), 2014 44th European
Conference_Location :
Rome
DOI :
10.1109/EuMC.2014.6986582