A low noise receiver for millimeter and submillimeter wavelengths

A broadband, low noise heterodyne receiver, suitable for astronomical use, has been built using a Pb alloy superconducting tunnel junction (SIS). The RF coupling is quasioptical via a bowtie antenna on a quartz lens and is accomplished without any tuning elements. In this preliminary version the double sideband receiver noise temperature rises from 205 K at 116 GHz to 375 K at 349 Ghz, and to 815 K at 466 GHz. This is the most versatile and sensitive receiver yet reported for sub-mm wavelengths.     

A low noise heterodyne receiver for astronomical observations operating around 0.63 mm wavelength

A heterodyne receiver is described in which an InSb hot electron bolometer is used as a mixer. The local oscillator power is obtained by doubling the frequency of a backward wave oscillator. The receiver operates between 460 and 500 GHz (0.65–0.6 mm). Noise temperatures amount typically to 1000 K.     

Analysis of square Fresnel Zone Plate Lens for dual band detectors

Dust emission is used in space applications for star-formation characterization normally acquired by different detectors operating at Infrared (IR) and sub-millimeter wave (sub-mm wave) frequencies. An integrated dual band detector working at both frequency ranges is described in this paper. The proposed configuration implements a spiral antenna working at sub-millimeter wave frequencies whose design is based on Fresnel zones theory. At the same time, this spiral antenna is used as Fresnel lens to focus IR power (12 μm) into an IR detector. The paper describes the influence of implementing a sub-mm wave spiral antenna based on square Fresnel zones. In particular, the effects on the focal distance and the focal gain at IR frequencies and the radiation features at sub-mm wave frequencies are studied. Furthermore, the importance of the number of Fresnel zones used in the design of the sub-mm spiral antenna is also determined.     

Coherent optical receiver for 680 Mbit/s using phase diversity

A coherent optical receiver using a multiport optical coupler to provide phase diversity is described. By this means, only homodyne bandwidth is required in the signal processing, but with tolerances on the frequency tracking typical of heterodyne systems. Measured sensitivities with limited local-oscillator power are ?47.5 dBm at 320 Mbit/s and ?42 dBm at 680 Mbit/s. The results at the higher bit rate are strongly influenced by limited receiver module bandwidth.     

A compact 220 GHz heterodyne receiver module with planar Schottky diodes

This letter presents the development of a compact 220 GHz heterodyne receiver module for radars application in which a novel low pass wide stop band intermediate frequency (IF) filter is integrated. The planar Schottky anti-parallel mixing diode based subharmonic mixer (SHM) is used as the receiver’s first stage. The diode is flip-chip mounted on a 50 μm thick quartz substrate. The accurate modeling of the self and mutual inductance of the diode’s air-bridges are discussed. The measured conversion loss (CL) of the SHM has a minimum value of 6.2 dB at 210.5 GHz, and is lower than 8.4 dB in the frequency range 209.4–219.6 GHz with a 10 mW input power from a local oscillator (LO). The LO chain consists of a 110 GHz passive tripler, two Ka-band amplifiers and a Ka-band active tripler. The tested minimum double side band (DSB) noise temperature of the integrated 220 GHz heterodyne receiver is 725 K at 205.2 GHz and lower than 1550 K in the frequency range 199–226 GHz.     

基于AlGaN/GaN HEMT太赫兹探测器的340 GHz无线通信接收前端

利用天线耦合AlGaN/GaN HEMT太赫兹探测器的自混频和外差混频效应,分别设计并测试了340 GHz频段直接检波式和外差混频式接收机前端。通过接收机信噪比的测量和接收功率的定标,得到了两种接收机的等效噪声功率。直接检波模式下探测器的响应度约为20 mA/W,直接检波模式和外差混频模式下接收机的等效噪声功率分别约为?64.6 dBm/Hz1/2和?114.79 dBm/Hz。在相同的载波功率和接收信号带宽条件下,当本振太赫兹波功率大于?7 dBm时,外差混频接收的信噪比优于直接检波的信噪比。当本振功率大于0 dBm时,外差混频接收机表现出优良的解调特性,其信噪比高出直接检波接收机的信噪比10 dB以上。     

L波段DBF体制雷达接收前端的设计

详细介绍了一种L波段DBF体制雷达的接收前端的设计过程.该前端采用超外差式二次变频体制,并最大限度提高各单元电路的集成度,实现了高度的宽温稳定性和批次一致性.测试结果充分证明该项技术已经成熟.     

Design of wide-band optical heterodyne balanced mixer receivers

The optical heterodyne balanced mixer, or dual-detector receiver, offers significant advantages over a single detector receiver. Balanced mixer receivers are particularly attractive for use in optical heterodyne communication systems because they conserve local oscillator power and cancel excess intensity noise present in the local oscillator. Simple circuit models that illustrate the noise performance, small signal gain, and bandwidth of a balanced mixer receiver are developed. A figure-of-merit for receiver noise performance is also derived. An example design of a gigahertz bandwidth optical heterodyne balanced mixer receiver and the techniques used to characterize near-quantum-limited receiver performance are discussed.     

Analysis of spectral characteristics of a superconducting integrated receiver

Frequency down-conversion of a received signal in an integrated receiver with a superconducting heterodyne oscillator is simulated. The effect of the nonideal heterodyne spectrum on the transformation is assessed. The possibility of elimination of distortions introduced by the heterodyne in the course of the input spectrum reconstruction is investigated. A new method for signal spectrum reconstruction is proposed and studied. The effect of noise at the receiver output on the reconstructed spectrum of the original signal is studied. The requirements for the heterodyne spectral parameters providing for the necessary accuracy of reconstruction are determined.     

A dual-detector optical heterodyne receiver for local oscillator noise suppression

The performance of a dual-detector optical heterodyne receiver was analyzed and compared with the performance of a conventional single-detector heterodyne receiver. The dual-detector receiver is found to offer two main advantages over the single-detector receiver-1) increased performance in the presence of local oscillator intensity fluctuations that might severely degrade single-detector receiver performance, and 2) decreased local oscillator power requirements. These two advantages are particularly important in a communication system which uses semiconductor laser diodes as local oscillators. Such lasers suffer from intrinsic wide-band intensity fluctuations and can also impose strict power constraints on receiver design. Based on the analysis, suggestions for the optimal design of a dual-detector heterodyne receiver are made. Also, several experiments were performed to demonstrate the improved performance of the dual-detector receiver-both for unguided- and guided-wave receivers.     

湍流大气中的激光外差探测

采用10.6μm零拍外差接收方案,进行了激光辐射空间相干性退化的检测。文中列出了外差效率与归一化接收孔径的关系曲线,当接收孔孔径大于相干直径时,随着归一化接收孔径增大,外差效率将显著下降;而当接收孔径小于相干直径时,结果恰相反。     

Balanced operation of a GaInAs/GaInAsP multiple-quantum-wellintegrated heterodyne receiver

The balanced operation of a multiple-quantum-well balanced heterodyne receiver photonic integrated circuit (PIC) is described. Using only SMA-connected 50 Ω commercial electronics, a free-space beam sensitivity of -42.3 dBm at 108 Mb/s and -39.7 dBm at 200 Mb/s for NRZ FSK (frequency-shift keying) reception has been achieved. This represents a 14 dB improvement over any previous heterodyne receiver PIC sensitivity. In addition to providing the multichannel benefits of heterodyne reception, this is also the highest sensitivity yet reported for any OEIC (optoelectronic integrated circuit) receiver     

模块化FPGA设计在某雷达接收机中的应用

首先介绍了雷达接收机和数字中频接收机原理,在此基础上针对某连续波测速雷达接收机,提出一种基于模块化FPGA设计方案,并详细讨论了信号处理模块的设计,该方案使得FPGA单元易于分块编写和分块调试,提高了设备的灵活性。     

毫米波副载波光纤通信技术的研究进展

综述了用于下一代移动通信的光纤毫米波副载波通信技术(ROF)的研究进展。介绍了系统的基本构想和涉及的关键技术。着重介绍几种毫米波副载波光发射器以及有关光学技术的新进展,包括外调制器方法、射频上转换法、光学外差法、毫米波调制光脉冲发生器等;简要介绍了ROF接收技术、系统技术和有关应用的研究动向。     

Polarization independent coherent optical receiver

This paper describes an optical heterodyne receiver for DPSK signals which can receive an optical signal having an arbitrary polarization state. This is achieved by splitting the received signal between two orthogonal polarization axes and processing the resulting two signals as in a conventional DPSK heterodyne receiver. The sum of the two demodulated signals provides a baseband signal independent of the polarization state of the received optical signal. When the receiver noise is dominated by the shot noise of the photodetectors, the receiver provides a BER of 10^-9for an average number of 22 photon/bit. In comparison, a conventional optical heterodyne receiver requires under the same noise condition 20 photon/bit to achieve the same BER for a received optical signal polarized along the polarization axis of the local optical signal.     

Performance analysis of a noncoherently combined large apertureoptical heterodyne receiver

The performance of a noncoherently combined, multiple-mirror heterodyne receiver is analyzed. In the absence of atmospheric turbulence, the performance of the noncoherently combined receiver is shown to be inferior to that of a monolithic, diffraction-limited receiver with equivalent aperture area. when atmospheric turbulence is taken into consideration, however, the efficiency of a monolithic aperture heterodyne receiver, is limited by the phase coherence length of the atmosphere, and generally does not improve with increasing aperture size. In contrast, the performance of a noncoherently combined system improves with an increasing number of receivers. Consequently, given a fixed collecting area, the noncoherently combined system can offer a superior performance. The performance of the noncoherently combined heterodyne receiver is studied by analyzing the combining loss of the receiver SNR (signal-to-noise ratio). It is shown that, given a constant collecting area, the performance of the combined receiver is optimized when the diameter of each of the individual receivers is on the order of the phase coherence length r₀ of the atmospheric turbulence     

基于肖特基二极管的140 GHz次谐波混频器

肖特基二极管混频器是毫米波太赫兹频段的超外差接收机中的关键器件,其研制对于太赫兹通信和雷达应用具有重要意义。本文描述了一种基于低寄生参量肖特基Z-极管DBES105a的140GHz二次谐波混频器（SHM）的仿真设计和制作测试。为了计算二极管特性阻抗,通过对二极管半导体物理结构的研究,建立了肖特基二极管三维电磁仿真模型。次谐波混频器采用波导腔体悬置微带线结构,通过HFSS＋ADS联合仿真设计。仿真结果显示,在65GHz,7dBm本振信号激励下,140GHz频点处的SSB转换损耗为6．3dB,1dB转换损耗带宽为14GHz,DSB噪声温度小于400K。测试结果显示,最低SSB转换损耗为26dB／135GHz,3dB转换损耗带宽为8GHz。     

A 345 GHZ heterodyne receiver for the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope

In this paper we describe the design and performance of a low-noise 345 GHz heterodyne receiver. The mixer uses a lead alloy SIS tunnel junction mounted in reduced height rectangular waveguide and is tuned with a single backshort. Local oscillator power is provided by a broad-band Gunn oscillator which drives a frequency quadrupler. The heterodyne performance has been verified in the laboratory using a gas absorption cell. In November 1991 this receiver was successfully commissioned and by direct comparison with a Schottky diode receiver we confirm a best receiver noise temperature of 150K (DSB) at 355 GHz and a tuning range of 300 to 380 GHz. The receiver is now available as a JCMT facility instrument.     

30μm Heterodyne receiver

Advantages and constraints of remote measurements using heterodyne spectroscopy near 30 μm are discussed. The state of the art of wideband HgCdTe photomixers and PbSnSe diode laser local oscillators being developed for far infrared heterodyne receivers is described. The first compact 30 μm heterodyne radiometer was built and initial results at 28 μm show about 2% mixer efficiency for a 500 MHz bandwidth receiver. Factors limiting receiver performance are discussed, along with the projected sensitivity of new interdigitated-electrode HgCdTe photoconductor mixers being developed for operation up to 200 μm.     

560 Mb/s optical PSK synchronous heterodyne experiment

A phase-locked optical heterodyne receiver constructed using a 1320-nm diode-pumped miniature Nd:YAG ring laser is discussed. Using this receiver and a transmitter based on another Nd:YAG laser, a 560-Mb/s phase-shift keying (PSK) synchronous heterodyne transmission was demonstrated over 78 km of single-mode fiber. With an optical phase-locked loop (PLL) natural frequency of 32 kHz and a damping factor of 1.46, the receiver sensitivity, measured at the output of the transmission link, was -48.7 dBm, or 159 photons/b. The corresponding detected sensitivity, measured on the surface of the p-i-n diode, was -51.8 dBm or 78 photons/b. This result suggests that the receiver sensitivity would have been about 82 photons/b if a balanced receiver with 0.2-dB excess coupler loss had been used. The impact of the finite intermediate frequency (IF) on heterodyne system performance was investigated; it was found that an IF of at least twice the bit rate is needed for a negligibly small penalty