High-speed W-band integrated photonic transmitter for radio-over-fiber applications

Nan Wei Chen, Hsuan Ju Tsai, Fon Ming Kuo, Jin Wei Shi

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Abstract

A high-speed W-band integrated photonic transmitter is demonstrated. The presented integrated photonic transmitter is essentially developed with a near-ballistic uni-traveling-carrier photodiode integrated with a broadband front end through the flip-chip assembling technique. Technically, compared to our previous design, a W-band bandpass filter is exploited to significantly increase the transmitter IF modulation bandwidth. The demonstrated integrated photonic transmitter has a flat broad IF modulation response, as well as a broad optical-to-electrical (O-E) bandwidth. Specifically, the variation of the normalized IF modulation response, ranging from dc to around 13 GHz, is within 3 dB, and the normalized 3-dB O-E bandwidth is about 24 GHz. On the other hand, an up to 20-Gb/s high data-rate wireless transmission realized with the presented transmitter is demonstrated. The integrated photonic transmitter is expected to find applications in high-speed radio-over-fiber communications.

Original languageEnglish
Article number5710017
Pages (from-to)978-986
Number of pages9
JournalIEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques
Volume59
Issue number4 PART 1
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 2011

Keywords

  • Front-end
  • W-band
  • photonic transmitter
  • radio-over-fiber (RoF)
  • uni-traveling-carrier photodiode (UTC-PD)

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