Millimeter-Wave Integrated Photoreceivers for High Data Rate Photonic Wireless Communication

• Published in: IEEE journal of selected topics in quantum electronics Vol. 24; no. 2; pp. 1 - 9
• Main Authors: Umezawa, Toshimasa, Jitsuno, Kunihisa, Pham Tien Dat, Kashima, Kenichi, Kanno, Atsushi, Yamamoto, Naokatsu, Kawanishi, Tetsuya
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.03.2018; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Atmospheric attenuation; Bandwidth; Bandwidths; Frequency response; Gain; high data rate; Inductance; integration; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber communication; Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing; Photonics; PIN-PD; Quadrature amplitude modulation; radio over fiber; single/multi carrier transmission; UTC-PD; Wireless communication; Wireless communications
• ISSN: 1077-260X; 1558-4542
• DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2017.2732222

We report on the use of 30 and 100 GHz integrated millimeter-wave photoreceivers in high data rate photonic wireless communication. The role of the bandwidth of a narrow-band photoreceiver in increasing the data rate of wireless single carrier transmission is discussed. An 11-GHz bandwidth photoreceiver achieved a data rate of 44.6 Gb/s using an 8 GBd, 64-QAM (quadrature amplitude modulation) signal. A wider bandwidth (19 GHz) integrated photoreceiver was designed and fabricated for use in the 100-GHz range. High-frequency response photoreceivers have the following advantages: they operate in a wide bandwidth easily, use frequency resources efficiently, and are subject to low amounts of atmospheric attenuation. In addition to the single carrier wireless transmission study, a high data rate (12 Gb/s) multicarrier radio over fiber (16-QAM in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing) transmission experiment was demonstrated in order to confirm the ability to increase the data rate with a wide operational bandwidth.