A 240 GHz quadrature receiver and transmitter for data transmission up to 40 Gbit/s

Author

Lopez-Diaz, D. ; Tessmann, A. ; Leuther, A. ; Wagner, Steffen ; Schlechtweg, Michael ; Ambacher, Oliver ; Kurz, F. ; Koenig, S. ; Antes, J. ; Boes, F. ; Henneberger, R. ; Kallfass, I.

Author_Institution

Fraunhofer Inst. for Appl. Solid State Phys. IAF, Freiburg, Germany

fYear

2013

fDate

6-10 Oct. 2013

Firstpage

1411

Lastpage

1414

Abstract

Based on active millimeter-wave monolithic integrated circuits (MMICs), a pair of receiver and transmitter modules have been developed and used for wireless data transmission experiments at 240 GHz with data rates of up to 40 Gbit/s. Both modules are driven with a subharmonic local oscillator, located at 120 GHz and feature broadband quadrature I/Q IF terminals. The receiver module has a maximum conversion gain of 3.8 dB at 240 GHz. The I/Q imbalance stays below 1.9 dB in the frequency range from 200 to 280 GHz. The transmitter achieves a maximum output power of -3.6 dBm.

Keywords

MIMIC; MMIC; radio receivers; radio transmitters; active millimeter-wave MMIC; active millimeter-wave monolithic integrated circuits; broadband quadrature I-Q IF terminals; frequency 120 GHz; frequency 200 GHz to 280 GHz; quadrature receiver; quadrature transmitter; receiver modules; subharmonic local oscillator; transmitter modules; wireless data transmission experiments; Data communication; Frequency measurement; MMICs; Power measurement; Radio frequency; Receivers; Wireless communication; data transmission; frequency conversion; millimeter-wave monolithic integrated circuit (MMIC); subharmonic mixer; wireless communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Conference (EuMC), 2013 European

Conference_Location

Nuremberg

Type

conf

Filename

6686931