Novel E-Band (71–76 GHz) photodiode module featuring a hermetic grounded-coplanar-waveguide-to-rectangular-waveguide transition

Author

Flammia, Ivan ; Leonhardt, Christoph C. ; Honecker, Jörg ; Steffan, Andreas G. ; Stöhr, Andreas

Author_Institution

ZHO, Univ. Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany

fYear

2011

fDate

18-21 Oct. 2011

Firstpage

405

Lastpage

408

Abstract

This paper presents a novel concept of a hermetic E-Band Photodiode (PD) Transmitting Module for Radio-over-Fiber (RoF) applications. A commercial PD chip with 50 Ω coplanar waveguide (CPW) output is wire-bonded to a 50 Ω grounded coplanar waveguide (GCPW) based on ROGERS RT/Duroid 5880 substrate. From the GCPW board a hermetic transition that makes use of a double-slot coupling approach is designed and optimized for the 71-76 GHz band. This concept allows to efficiently coupling the electrical power delivered by the PD chip to a Rectangular Waveguide WR-12 output with an insertion loss of only 3 dB.

Keywords

coplanar waveguides; lead bonding; millimetre wave diodes; photodiodes; radio-over-fibre; rectangular waveguides; waveguide transitions; E-band photodiode module; GCPW board; ROGERS RT/Duroid 5880 substrate; double-slot coupling; electrical power; frequency 71 GHz to 76 GHz; hermetic grounded-coplanar-waveguide; hermetic photodiode; hermetic transition; radio-over-fiber; rectangular waveguide transition; resistance 50 ohm; transmitting module; wire-bonded; Antennas; Coplanar waveguides; Couplings; Photonics; Rectangular waveguides; Scattering parameters; Wireless communication; E-band; double-slot antenna; grounded coplanar waveguide (GCPW); hermetic photodiode module; rectangular waveguide output;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Photonics, 2011 International Topical Meeting on & Microwave Photonics Conference, 2011 Asia-Pacific, MWP/APMP

Conference_Location

Singapore

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-716-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWP.2011.6088757

Filename

6088757