Slot-fed higher order mode Fabry-Perot filters

Low-loss bandpass filters consisting of Fabry-Perot resonators excited by waveguide-fed slots coupling to higher-order resonator modes are demonstrated. For close reflector spacings, the waveguide couples efficiently through the slots to the TEM₄₀₀ and TEM₃₀₀ modes. The characteristics of both rectangular and circular waveguide feeds with various slot lengths and widths are presented. At X-band the filters have unloaded Q values which range from 1000 to 7000 with insertion losses less than 1 dB. The filters which have the rectangular waveguide feeds are mechanically tunable over a 20% bandwidth     

Increased linear dynamic range by low biasing the Mach-Zehndermodulator

Operating a Mach-Zehnder modulator at an optical bias below the conventional 50% (quadrature) bias is investigated. Theoretical distortion curves as a function of bias have been calculated and experimentally verified. These curves show that (single octave) linear dynamic range increases as the bias is lowered, so long as optical power at the detector can be maintained just below the saturation level or laser noise limit. This method thus provides a way for very large optical power to be used to benefit linear dynamic range. Theoretically, 20 dB of excess optical power, attenuated through low biasing, can result in an increase in linear dynamic range of 15 dB     

Partial adaptive nulling on a monopulse phased array antenna system

A partial phase-only nulling (PPON) algorithm has been developed and evaluated on a 496-element monopulse phased array antenna system which employs five-bit phase shifters. Using this PPON algorithm allows nulls in the far-field pattern to be steered to the desired directions for a phased array equipped with low-resolution phase shifters to perform simultaneous nulling in the sum and two difference patterns in the environment of multiple jammers. Simulated and experimental patterns are illustrated     

X-band HBT VCO with high-efficiency CB buffer amplifier

A monolithic AlGaAs-GaAs HBT VCO with common-base (CB) buffer amplifier was demonstrated at X-band. Overall efficiency of 30% was achieved with 93-mW output power at 9.8 GHz. The MMIC chip is only 1 mm×2 mm, including the monolithic varactor diode. The circuit design offers several unique advantages: (1) the CB buffer amplifier reduces the frequency-pull effect from the external load; (2) the design for the oscillation condition and the output impedance match for power are separated; and (3) the overall efficiency can be high. A step-by-step design procedure is discussed     

Fiber transmission for sub-500-fs pulses using adispersion-compensating fiber

We report transmission of ~60-fs and ~245-fs pulses, respectively, over 42-m and 2.5-km fiber links which consist of standard single-mode fibers (SMF) concatenated with dispersion-compensating fibers (DCF). The experiments using very short pulses (~60 fs) over a short fiber length (~42 m) demonstrate the ability to achieve simultaneous dispersion and dispersion slope compensation using this technique. Femtosecond spectral interferometry measurements of this 42-m link show that its residual dispersion slope is approximately six times lower than that of the dispersion-shifted fiber. Finally, to demonstrate that the dispersion-limited propagation distance is proportional to the cube of the pulsewidth, we transmit ~245-fs pulses over a 2.5-km SMF-DCF link and achieve comparable pulse restoration as with the shorter fiber experiments     

Transmission-line analysis of a capacitively coupledmicrostrip-ring resonator

The resonant frequencies of a microstrip-ring resonator capacitively coupled to a feed line are accurately analyzed using a transmission-line model. By making use of ABCD- and Y-admittance matrices, a compact closed-form expression for the input impedance of the ring alone is analytically derived and shows that the ring ran be equivalently viewed as a frequency-dependent capacitor. The coupling gap is then modeled by an equivalent L-network comprising a parallel and a series gap capacitance obtained by modifying Garg and Bahl's closed-form expressions for an end-to-end microstrip gap. By simplifying the parallel and series combinations of the overall equivalent circuit, the total input impedance looking from the feed line to the gap is analytically derived to predict the resonant frequencies. To verify the analysis, the resonant frequencies of the capacitively coupled ring resonator have been accurately measured, with the experimental results showing very good agreement with the theoretical predictions     

Optimal PN sequence design for quasisynchronous CDMA communicationsystems

Direct sequence (DS) code-division multiple-access (CDMA) is a modulation and multiple access technique currently being implemented in digital cellular mobile radio communication systems. The conventional quasisynchronous (QS) DS-CDMA communication system is generalized, and the problem of optimal spreading pseudonoise (PN) sequence design for new QS DS-CDMA communication systems is formulated. The classes of optimal PN sequences which have good pseudo-randomness and very small cross-correlation values for some range of offsets are designed by using a matrix-based approach. In contrast to the case of the other sequences, the optimal PN sequences produce small multiple-access interference (MAI) which is not affected by the number of users if there are sufficiently large number of users in the link. The new results are compared with the commonly used PN sequences to prove the superiority of our designed sequences, and the system performance of the QS-CDMA systems using different PN sequences are also evaluated     

A 60 GHz Medium Power Amplifier for Radio‐over‐Fiber System

We present the design and fabrication of a 60 GHz medium power amplifier monolithic microwave integrated circuit with excellent gain‐flatness for a 60 GHz radio‐over‐fiber system. The circuit has a 4‐stage structure using microstrip coupled lines instead of metal‐insulator‐metal capacitors for unconditional stability of the amplifier and yield enhancement. The gains of each stage of the amplifier are modified to provide broadband characteristics of input/output matching for the first and fourth stages and to achieve higher gains for the second and third stages to improve the gain‐flatness of the amplifier for wideband.