A 48 Gbps Communication Link Over D-Band Polymer Microwave Fiber
Paper in proceeding, 2025
A D-band transmitter and receiver are packaged from bare die MMICs that were designed and fabricated in a 130 nm SiGe BiCMOS technology. The packaged modules are interfaced to a WR-6.5 waveguide at the RF and coaxial connectors at the LO and IF ports. Both transmitter and receiver cover an RF frequency range of around 120-150 GHz while the required LO frequency is 1/4 of the RF frequency. A D-band communication link built with the packaged transmitter and receiver demonstrated up to 48 Gbps 16-QAM over 1-meter polymer microwave fiber (PMF), 40 Gbps 16-QAM over 2 meters PMF, and 16 Gbps QPSK over 4 meters PMF.
PMF
receiver
QPSK
data rate
16-QAM
communication
transmitter
D-band
Author
Yu Yan
Chalmers, Microtechnology and Nanoscience (MC2), Microwave Electronics
Vessen Vassilev
Chalmers, Microtechnology and Nanoscience (MC2), Microwave Electronics
Frida Strömbeck
Chalmers, Microtechnology and Nanoscience (MC2), Microwave Electronics
Dapeng Wu
Sivers Semiconductors AB
Herbert Zirath
Chalmers, Microtechnology and Nanoscience (MC2), Microwave Electronics
Proceedings - IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems
02714310 (ISSN)
9798350356830 (ISBN)
2025 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, ISCAS 2025
London, United Kingdom,
London, United Kingdom,
A Dual-frequency Distributed MIMO Approach for Future 6G Applications
European Commission (EC) (EC/HE/101096302), 2023-01-01 -- 2026-06-30.
Areas of Advance
Information and Communication Technology
Subject Categories (SSIF 2025)
Other Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering
Communication Systems
Telecommunications
DOI
10.1109/ISCAS56072.2025.11043384