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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Rady, Ramy
• Luo, Yu-Lun
• Madsen, Christi
• Palermo, Samuel
• Entesari, Kamran

Titel

An mm-Wave CMOS/Si-Photonics Reconfigurable Hybrid-Integrated Heterodyning Software-Defined Radio Receiver

Ist Teil von

• IEEE transactions on microwave theory and techniques, 2024-05, Vol.72 (5), p.2824-2839

Ort / Verlag

New York: IEEE

Erscheinungsjahr

2024

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• IEEE_Xplore

Quelle

IEEE Electronic Library (IEL)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This article presents a re-configurable hybrid millimeter-wave (mm-wave) software-defined radio (SDR) receiver that integrates silicon photonics (SiPhs) and complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) chips. The SDR system leverages a programmable photonic integrated circuit (PIC) with high-<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">Q </tex-math></inline-formula> filters, enabling versatile channel selection, image rejection, and jammer rejection capabilities over a tunable frequency range of 30-45 GHz and a bandwidth of 3-5 GHz. It is also capable of autonomously detecting and simultaneously rejecting up to four out-of-band (OOB) blockers, providing <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">> </tex-math></inline-formula>80-dB rejection for two blockers (45 dB from the bandpass filter (BPF) and <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">> </tex-math></inline-formula>35 dB from the notch filter) and <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">> </tex-math></inline-formula>65 dB for four blockers (the notch filter provides <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">> </tex-math></inline-formula>20 dB) for blockers as close as 1.25 GHz to the desired signal to enhance SDR robustness in crowded spectral environments. Moreover, signal downconversion and compensation for photonics-based losses yield an in-band spurious-free dynamic range (SFDR) of 50 dB over 5-GHz bandwidth (BW) and an error vector magnitude (EVM) measurement of −30 dB when processing a 100-MSymbol/s 64-QAM signal under the influence of two −10-dBm OOB blockers at 5- and 10-GHz offsets. Based on the agreement between simulation and measurement results, this article discusses link optimization and provides a recommendation for improvements in SFDR.