MMIC antenna front end for optically distributed MMW antennas

Author

Sturzebecher, Dana ; Xiangdong Zhang ; Daryoush, Afshin S.

Author_Institution

US Army Res. Lab., Fort Monmouth, NJ, USA

fYear

1995

fDate

16-20 May 1995

Firstpage

1107

Abstract

It is well documented that fiber optic remoting of information to the millimeter wave distributed antennas is viable only when the modulated carrier is constructed at the antenna front end. The MMIC based antenna front is designed to perform the three important functions of: generation of a phase and frequency stable local oscillator; down-conversion (up-conversion) of the modulated RF (IF) carrier; and 0-360/spl deg/ phase control of the modulated RF (IF) for beam steering. This paper presents the design and experimental evaluation of a MMIC front end circuit designed for operation at Ka band. A P-HEMT based foundry service from TRW was selected to design the integrated front end.<>

Keywords

HEMT integrated circuits; MMIC frequency convertors; MMIC mixers; MMIC oscillators; antenna phased arrays; arrays; field effect MMIC; millimetre wave antenna arrays; optical fibre networks; phase control; transceivers; 12 GHz; 18 dB; 24 GHz; 33 GHz; 9 GHz; Ka band circuit; MMIC antenna front end; MMIC oscillator; P-HEMT based foundry service; T/R module; beam steering; cascaded oscillator technology; fiber optic remoting; frequency stable local oscillator; millimeter wave distributed antennas; modulated RF carrier down-conversion; modulated RF carrier up-conversion; optically distributed MMW antennas; phase control; phase stable local oscillator; push-pull MMIC self-oscillating mixer; Beam steering; Circuits; Local oscillators; MMICs; Optical fibers; Optical modulation; Optical variables control; Phase control; Phase modulation; Radio frequency;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Symposium Digest, 1995., IEEE MTT-S International

Conference_Location

Orlando, FL, USA

ISSN

0149-645X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2581-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWSYM.1995.406165

Filename

406165