Photonic millimeter wave system for high capacity wireless communications

Pushing the wireless communications capacity above 100 Gbps will require new spectral regions and new technologies and techniques. Millimeter wave photonics technology appears poised to meet the new bandwidth and fidelity challenges and offers novel architectures, techniques, and system capabilities. This paper presents recent work developing and demonstrating millimeter wave photonic carrier generation, upconversion, downconversion and photonic millimeter wave arrays as well as how they fit into a new class of wireless communications architecture.