W-Band Wireless Data Transmission by the Integration of a Near-Ballistic Unitraveling-Carrier Photodiode With a Horn Antenna Fed by a Quasi-Yagi Radiator

Author

Kuo, F.-M. ; Shi, J.-W. ; Wang, Shao-Ning ; Chen, Nan-Wei ; Shih, Po-Tsung ; Lin, Chun-Ting ; Jiang, Wen-Jr ; Wong, Er-Zih ; Chen, Jason ; Chi, Sien

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Nat. Central Univ., Jhongli, Taiwan

Volume

30

Issue

11

fYear

2009

Firstpage

1167

Lastpage

1169

Abstract

We demonstrate a novel W-band photonic transmitter mixer, which is composed of a planar quasi-Yagi radiator for feeding a WR-10 waveguide-based horn antenna and a near-ballistic unitraveling-carrier photodiode. The module demonstrates reasonable coupling loss in terms of the millimeter-wave (MMW) power launched from the integrated radiator into the WR-10 waveguide. With the bias-modulation technique and an optical MMW source, we can successfully achieve a wireless data transmission of 2.5-Gb/s quadrature phase shift keying at a carrier wave frequency of 102.5 GHz with a transmission distance of over 2.3 m.

Keywords

data communication; horn antennas; millimetre wave mixers; photodiodes; planar waveguides; quadrature phase shift keying; radio transmitters; W-band photonic transmitter mixer; W-band wireless data transmission; WR-10 waveguide; bias modulation; bit rate 2.5 Gbit/s; frequency 102.5 GHz; horn antenna; millimeter-wave power; near-ballistic unitraveling-carrier photodiode; optical MMW source; planar quasiYagi radiator; quadrature phase shift keying; High-power photodiode; optoelectronic (OE) mixer; photonic transmitter; quasi-Yagi radiator;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Electron Device Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0741-3106

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LED.2009.2031602

Filename

5280307