Digital and analog satellite/millimeter-wave transmission link

Author

Suematsu, E. ; Amano, Y. ; Yamada, A. ; Yu Zhu ; Sato, H. ; Hashizume, Nobuya ; Kuroki, F. ; Yoneyama, T.

Author_Institution

Adv. Technol. Res. Lab., Sharp Corp., Nara, Japan

Volume

3

fYear

1999

fDate

13-19 June 1999

Firstpage

1047

Abstract

The performance of a digital and analog satellite/millimeter-wave transmission link has been experimentally investigated in terms of the C/N ratio. This system, which wirelessly connected TV and its antenna using millimeter-wave signals, consists of a commercially available low noise converter with a parabola antenna and a millimeter-wave transmitter/receiver. The transmitter/receiver has built-in up/down-converters, which enables multi-channel TV signals with more than 100 channels to transmit and receive with air-interface bandwidth of about 1 GHz in the 60 GHz band. An output power of 1 dBm with a 20 dBi horn antenna in the transmitter and a noise figure of 11 dB with the same horn antenna in the receiver, make possible millimeter-wave multi-channel video transmission through the walls between two rooms in a Japanese house.

Keywords

horn antennas; millimetre wave receivers; satellite communication; television transmitters; 1 GHz; 11 dB; 60 GHz; C/N ratio; horn antenna; low noise converter; multi-channel TV signals; output power; parabola antenna; satellite/millimeter-wave transmission link; video transmission; Bandwidth; Diodes; Horn antennas; Millimeter wave communication; Millimeter wave technology; Noise measurement; RF signals; Relays; Satellite broadcasting; Transmitting antennas;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Symposium Digest, 1999 IEEE MTT-S International

Conference_Location

Anaheim, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5135-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWSYM.1999.779567

Filename

779567