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An optical link for W-band transmit/receive applications
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An optical link for W-band transmit/receive applications

E.C. Niehenke and P. Herczfeld
1997 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest, v 1, pp 35-38
1997

Abstract

Diodes Frequency synthesizers Laser excitation MMICs Optical design Optical device fabrication Optical fiber communication Optical noise Phase noise Power generation
This paper describes the design, fabrication, and evaluation of a low noise optical link for W-band transmit/receive applications. The optical link is at Ku-band with an input power of 5 mW, compatible with the direct frequency coherent synthesizer, followed with low-cost MMIC /spl times/6 for W-band output of 70 mW and /spl times/3 for the W-band /spl times/2 subharmonic mixer with an output power of 32 mW. A diode pumped YAG laser at 1319 nm is modulated with a Mach-Zehnder modulator at Ku band and detected with PIN diode photodetector. The measured Ku band phase noise floor of -145 dBc/Hz was obtained with a projected W-band phase noise of -129.4 dBc/Hz.

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