Silicon Photonics-Wireless Interface IC for 60-GHz Wireless Link

Author

Ko, Minsu ; Youn, Jin-Sung ; Lee, Myung-Jae ; Choi, Kwang-Chun ; Rücker, Holger ; Choi, Woo-Young

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Yonsei Univ., Seoul, South Korea

Volume

24

Issue

13

fYear

2012

fDate

7/1/2012 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1112

Lastpage

1114

Abstract

We demonstrated a silicon photonics-wireless interface integrated circuit (IC) realized in 0.25- μ m SiGe bipolar complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor technology, which converts 850-nm optical nonreturn-to-zero data into 60-GHz binary phase-shift keying wireless data. A transmission of 1.6 Gb/s in 60 GHz using the interface IC is successfully demonstrated with the error-free operation achieved at 6-dBm optical input power.

Keywords

BiCMOS integrated circuits; Ge-Si alloys; bipolar MIMIC; field effect MIMIC; integrated optoelectronics; microwave photonics; phase shift keying; radio links; SiGe; binary phase shift keying wireless data; bipolar complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor technology; frequency 60 GHz; optical nonreturn-to-zero data; photonics-wireless interface ic; silicon photonics-wireless interface integrated circuit; size 0.25 mum; wavelength 850 nm; wireless link; Fiber optics; Gain; Integrated circuits; Integrated optics; Optical amplifiers; Photonics; Silicon; Integrated optoelectronics; millimeter wave communication; millimeter wave integrated circuits; silicon photonics;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2012.2196034

Filename

6194276