Integrated Heterojunction Bipolar Transistor Optically Injection-Locked Self-Oscillating Opto-Electronic Mixers for Bi-Directional Fiber-Fed Wireless Applications

Author

Kim, Jae-Young ; Choi, Woo-Young ; Kamitsuna, Hideki ; Ida, Minoru ; Kurishima, Kenji

Author_Institution

Yonsei Univ., Seoul

Volume

55

Issue

12

fYear

2007

Firstpage

2734

Lastpage

2739

Abstract

A 30-GHz-band third harmonic optically injection-locked self-oscillating opto-electronic mixer is implemented with a 10-GHz InP heterojunction bipolar transistor monolithic microwave integrated circuit oscillator. The monolithic self-oscillating mixer can be optically injection locked in wide operating conditions and can perform efficient frequency up- and down-conversion with low-power optical local-oscillator signals. Using the mixer, bi-directional transmission of 32 quadrature amplitude modulation data in a 30-GHz fiber-fed wireless link is successfully demonstrated.

Keywords

III-V semiconductors; MMIC oscillators; heterojunction bipolar transistors; indium compounds; microwave mixers; quadrature amplitude modulation; wireless channels; InP; bi-directional wireless applications; fiber-fed wireless applications; fiber-fed wireless link; frequency 10 GHz; frequency 30 GHz; integrated heterojunction bipolar transistor; monolithic microwave integrated circuit oscillator; optically injection-locked mixers; opto-electronic mixers; quadrature amplitude modulation; self-oscillating mixers; Bidirectional control; Bipolar integrated circuits; Heterojunction bipolar transistors; Indium phosphide; Integrated optics; MMICs; Microwave integrated circuits; Monolithic integrated circuits; Optical modulation; Photonic integrated circuits; Fiber-fed wireless link; InP heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT); monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC); optical injection locking; self-oscillating opto-electronic (O/E) mixer;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Microwave Theory and Techniques, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9480

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TMTT.2007.909472

Filename

4383175