A new ultra-wideband, ultra-short monocycle pulse generator withreduced ringing

We introduce a new ultra-wideband (UWB), ultra-short, step recovery diode monocycle pulse generator. This pulse generator uses a simple RC high-pass filter as a differentiator to generate the monocycle pulse directly. The pulse-shaping network employs a resistive circuit to achieve UWB matching and substantial removal of the pulse ringing, and rectifying and switching diodes to further suppress the ringing. An ultra-short monocycle pulse of 300-ps pulse duration, -17-dB ringing level, and good symmetry has been demonstrated. Good agreement between the measured and calculated results was achieved     

On the Development of an Integrated CMOS-Based UWB Tunable-Pulse Transmit Module

A novel low-cost low-power fully integrated tunable transmit module composed of a tunable CMOS monocycle pulse generator and compact uniplanar antenna was designed, built, and tested for ultra-wideband (UWB) impulse systems. The CMOS tunable pulse generator integrates a tuning delay circuit, square-wave generator, impulse-forming circuit, and pulse-shaping circuit in a single chip using a standard low-cost 0.25-$muhbox m$CMOS process. It can generate a monocycle pulse and Gaussian-type impulse (without the pulse-shaping circuitry) signals with tunable pulse duration. A compact uniplanar UWB antenna was also developed and integrated directly with the CMOS pulse generator chip to form the complete integrated tunable UWB transmit module. Measured results show that the CMOS tunable pulse generator can produce a 0.3–0.6-V peak-to-peak monocycle pulse with 140–350-ps tunable pulse duration and a 0.5–1.3-V peak-to-peak impulse signal with 100–300-ps tunable pulse-duration, and the uniplanar antenna has less than a 18-dB return loss and is suitable for transmitting/receiving UWB time-domain impulse signals covering the entire UWB bandwidth of 3.1–10.6 GHz. Good agreement between measured and calculated performance is also achieved. The UWB transmit module was experimentally characterized and its performance is verified. This UWB module finds applications in various time-domain UWB systems including wireless communications and radar.     

超宽带Scholtz’s单周期脉冲的产生电路设计

以并联阶跃恢复二极管（SRD）窄脉冲发生器为基础,结合简单的RLC电路,设计一种直接产生Scholtz’s单周期脉冲的电路结构。这种脉冲近似二次微分高斯脉冲,是超宽带系统中使用较多的一种波形。文章主要讨论了电路原理与设计方法,并进行了仿真验证。仿真结果显示该电路所产生的脉冲信号具有良好的波形,是一种适合于超宽带通信系统的窄脉冲信号产生电路。     

High-Order Monocycle Design and Its Waveform-Generating Circuit for UWB Communications

Ultra-wide-band (UWB) technology can provide data throughput rate at gigabit per second. UWB also shows promising potentials for use in short-range indoor wireless communications and outdoor ad hoc networking. Adopting ultra-short impulses in UWB transmission, however, make systems vulnerable to timing jitter. To overcome this challenge, we propose a time-hopping high- order waveform modulation scheme in this paper. Central to our design is the adaptation of a high-order monocycle (HOM), which provides timing-jitter robust UWB communications. We present a CMOS pulse generator circuit to produce the HOM monocycle. We also use 0.18-mum CMOS technology with 1.8-V power supply to simulate the monocycle generator design using the Cadence software. The simulation results show that our generated waveform meets the UWB communication and the FCC requirements. Our modulation scheme outperforms other systems using traditional monocycles in terms of timing-jitter robustness.     

Ultra-Wideband Waveform Generator Based on Optical Pulse-Shaping and FBG Tuning

We propose and demonstrate experimentally a prototype for ultra-wideband (UWB) waveform generator based on optical pulse shaping. The time-domain pulse shape is written in the frequency domain, and a single-mode fiber performs frequency-to-time conversion. A U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC)-compliant power efficient pulse shape is inscribed in the frequency domain by a fiber Bragg grating (FBG) with an excellent match between optimized and measured pulses. Two other popular UWB pulse shapes (Gaussian monocycle and doublet pulses) are achieved by proper tuning of two FBG-based variable optical filters. A balanced photodetector removes an unwanted rectangular pulse superimposed on the desired waveform, assuring compliance at low frequency.     

Optical Frequency Conversion for Millimeter-Wave Ultra-Wideband-Over-Fiber Systems

This letter investigates all-optical frequency conversion of ultra-wideband (UWB) signals for UWB-over-fiber up-link and down-link systems. An electrooptical Mach-Zehnder modulator is used in nonlinear regime to realize frequency up and down conversion of UWB rectangular pulse and monocycle. All-optical frequency up-conversion of rectangular pulse at 18 GHz generates undesired local oscillator centered in the up-converted UWB spectrum, whereas up-conversion of monocycle waveform exhibits a power spectrum density optimally fitting the UWB emission mask. Up and down conversions of UWB monocycle, using the same UWB-over-fiber system, have shown low distortion induced by the optical mixing process on the UWB monocycle.     

满足FCC辐射掩模的UWB信号设计算法及性能分析

脉冲波形设计是超宽带无线通信技术研究中的重要内容。以满足联邦通信委员会(FCC)辐射掩模为前提,采用两次迭代的算法逐步对脉冲波形参数进行优化,设计了一种低复杂度、能够最大限度提高UWB系统的辐射功率的UWB信号。同时,研究了经过加性高斯白噪声(AWGN)信道,在跳时扩频脉位调制(TH-PPM)UWB系统中使用该窄脉冲的系统性能。仿真结果表明,该UWB通信系统比通常使用Manchester窄脉冲或Scholtz窄脉冲的UWB系统误码性能更优。这对于UWB系统的实际运用有很好的指导意义。     

Photonic Monocycle Pulse Frequency Up-Conversion for Ultrawideband-Over-Fiber Applications

We demonstrate a photonic monocycle pulse frequency up-conversion scheme for ultrawideband (UWB)-over-fiber applications using nonlinear polarization rotation arising in a semiconductor optical amplifier. For the first time, we have successfully realized the photonic up-conversion of UWB monocycle pulses with an optical local oscillator signal at 24 GHz in the whole -band. The up-converted UWB monocycle pulse at 24 GHz exhibits a power spectrum density fitting the UWB emission mask. After electrical down-conversion, the UWB monocycle pulse has shown low distortion induced by the optical mixing process.     

Methods for Ultra-Wideband Pulse Generation Based on Optical Cross-Polarization Modulation

Optical methods for different type ultra-wideband (UWB) pulse generation based on cross-polarization modulation (CPM) are proposed and demonstrated in this paper. Two polarity-reverse pulses can be obtained by CPM and birefringence time delay to form a monocycle pulse. A semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) is placed after the monocycle pulse process for doublet pulse generation. These two kinds of pulses can be employed in single-band impulse radio UWB (IR-UWB) systems. Two kinds of multi-band UWB pulses can be generated based on monocycle pulse train with proper apodization profiles, realized by hybrid photonic microwave filter and synchronous polarization modulation respectively. Experimental results show that these pulses can be used in multi-band UWB (MB-UWB) over fiber systems.      

Generation of Arbitrary UWB Waveforms by Spectral Pulse Shaping and Thermally-Controlled Apodized FBGs

We propose and experimentally demonstrate an arbitrary UWB pulse generator. The proposed technique is based on spectral pulse shaping and frequency-to-time conversion. The reconfigurability of this technique comes from changing the apodizaton of a chirped fiber Bragg grating (FBG) using a series of heating elements (HE). By setting the appropriate temperature set to the HEs, any predesigned UWB waveforms can be generated with high precision. The effective isotropically radiated power (EIRP)-optimized and U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC)-optimized pulses as well as the traditional Gaussian monocycle and doublet UWB waveforms are generated which are in excellent match with the designed target pulse shapes. While other arbitrary pulse generators have used similar strategies (spectral shaping and frequency-to-time conversion), ours uses inexpensive technologies with the potential for practical, compact packaging.     

All-digital low-power CMOS pulse generator for UWB system

An all-digital CMOS ultra-wideband (UWB) pulse generator which complies with FCC regulations is presented. The proposed pulse generator generates a single UWB pulse satisfying FCC regulations without any filtering. The average power consumption of the whole circuit is 15.4 mW and 675 /spl mu/W at the pulse repetition frequency of 500 and 1 MHz, respectively.     

全光超宽带正相和反相monocycle信号源的研究

基于半导体光放大器( SOA)中交叉增益调制(XGM)效应,同时全光实现超宽带(UWB)正相、反相高斯单边信号(monocycle).输出的monocycle脉冲只包含一个波长分量,在光纤传输过程中monocycle上下脉冲不会引入时间差.利用光通信系统软件OptiSystem对方案进行仿真,分析了光源波长对输出monocycle脉冲的影响,结果表明输出的monocycle脉冲具有对光源变化不敏感的优点.     

An ultrawideband system architecture for tag based wireless sensor networks

With the latest improvements in device size, power consumption, and communications, sensor networks are becoming increasingly more popular. There has also been a great increase in the popularity of commercial applications based on ultrawideband (UWB). Impulse radio (IR) based UWB technology utilizes noise-like signal, has potentially low complexity and low cost, is resistant to severe multipath, and has very good time domain resolution allowing for location and tracking applications. In this paper, the architecture and performance of a noncoherent low complexity UWB impulse radio based transceiver designed for low data rate, low cost sensor network applications is presented. The UWB-IR transmitter is based on a delay locked loop (DLL) and UWB monocycle pulse generator. The UWB-IR receiver utilises a noncoherent, energy detection based approach, which makes it largely independent of the shape of the transmit waveform and robust to multipath channels. The test circuits are designed for 0.35 /spl mu/m SiGe BiCMOS technology. This paper presents system simulations results as well as the performance of key functional blocks of the designed UWB application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) transceiver architecture. The simulated power consumption of UWB-IR transceiver circuits is 136 mW with 100% duty cycle with a 3.3 V power supply.     

Photonic method for ultra-wideband monocycle pulse frequency upconversion

A novel optical method for frequency upconversion in ultra-wideband (UWB) system application is proposed and demonstrated. A UWB monocycle pulse can be generated by cross-polarsation modulation combined with carrier-suppressed modulation, and after an O/E detector, it can be converted to 32 GHz band. After electrical downconversion, the UWB monocycle pulse has a fractional bandwidth of 144% and fits UWB applications.     

Ultra-Wideband Pulse Generation Based on Cross-Gain Modulation in Fiber Optical Parametric Amplifier

A novel approach to generate ultra-wideband (UWB) monocycle or doublet pulse using cross-gain modulation in fiber optical parametric amplifier is demonstrated in a single experimental setup. The high-speed optical parametric process realizes the signal amplification, idler generation, and pump depletion simultaneously within femtosecond response time in the highly nonlinear fiber. After the combination of the three lightwaves with a suitable time delay between them, UWB pulse is obtained. A selective generation of monocycle or doublet pulse can be made by altering the optical attenuators without changing the wavelengths or the powers of the pump and the signal. In our experiment, high-quality UWB monocycle and doublet pulses with a fractional bandwidth of 115% and 126% were generated.      

一种有载频超宽带脉冲源设计

针对无载频脉冲低频分量大、辐射效率低、频带可调性差等问题,设计了一种以阶跃恢复二极管、D触发器及超宽带调制器为主的宽频带、高重复频率、低振铃水平的有载频超宽带脉冲源。该脉冲源电路由驱动电路、高速开关电路、整形电路、超宽带调制器及振荡器电路组成。实测结果表明,脉冲源输出脉冲信号重复频率可达125 MHz,脉冲宽度600 ps（底宽）,脉冲振铃水平低于10%,峰-峰值为5.4 V,-10 dB带宽可达4.2 GHz。脉冲信号中心频率与载频相同,可在6.6~8.5 GHz之间灵活设置。利用所设计的脉冲源进行时域测量,其结果与矢量网络分析仪频域测量结果相比幅频特性均方根误差小于0.21 dB。该脉冲源可应用于超宽带时域测量、短距离高速无线通信、高精度室内定位等应用。     

基于粒子群算法的超宽带脉冲波形设计

首先分析了在超宽带系统中高斯脉冲成形因子和微分阶数对其能量谱密度的影响,并在此基础上,为了提高高斯脉冲波形的频谱利用率,采用高斯导函数线性组合来产生脉冲波形,提出并分析了一种基于粒子群（PSO）优化算法的超宽带无线脉冲波形优化设计方法,仿真表明该方法产生的高斯导函数线性组合脉冲能够很好地满足FCC的频谱掩模限制。     

New design of 3.2–4.8 GHz generator for multi-bands architecture of UWB communication

In this paper a new design of Ultra-Wide Band (UWB) generator is presented. This circuit is the most important block in multi-bands transmitter architecture of UWB communication system. The proposed UWB generator is composed of multi-bands voltage controlled oscillator (VCO), mixer and rectangular pulse generator which consist of ring oscillator, time delay and AND gate function. The UWB generator is based on multiplying the rectangular pulse envelope to a continuous sinusoidal wave in order to generate the UWB signal. This UWB generator circuit produces an output signal which is characterized by the bandwidth of 1600 MHz divided into three sub-bands of 528 MHz, centered at frequencies of 3.432, 3.96, 4.488 GHz and the limited Power Spectral Density (PSD) is −41.44 dBm/MHz. The maximum amplitude of UWB signal is 214 mV, the pulse is during of 3 ns and the pulse repetition period (PRP) is 32 ns. The power consumption is approximately equal to 26 mW at a voltage supply of 2.5 V. This topology is designed in CMOS 0.35 μm AMS process technology.     

All-Optical Ultrawideband Monocycle Generation Using Quadratic Nonlinear Interaction Seeded by Dark Pulses

We propose and demonstrate a new approach to all-optical generation of ultrawideband (UWB) monocycle pulses using the quadratic nonlinear interaction seeded by dark pulses in a periodically poled lithium niobate (PPLN) waveguide. When feeding two dark optical pulses with proper relative time delay to participate in the sum-frequency generation (SFG) in a PPLN, the parametric depletion effect accomplishes the tailoring of the dark pulse to be a UWB monocycle pulse at a single wavelength. Pairs of polarity-inverted UWB monocycle pulses are generated in the experiment with the central wavelength, 10-dB bandwidth, and fractional bandwidth conforming to the UWB definition by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC, part 15).      

一种基于数字电路的纳秒级脉冲产生方法

介绍了超宽带无线电的基本概念和技术特点,对几种典型的超宽带窄脉冲产生方法进行了描述和比较,提出了一种采用数字电路实现超宽带纳秒级窄脉冲的新方法,叙述了电路的基本原理和核心器件的主要性能,给出了电路结构,并对试验电路进行了测试。最后给出了测试结果并对测试结果进行了分析,得出了相关的结论。