High-speed QPSK modulator and demodulator with subharmonic pumping |
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Authors: | Trambarulo R. Schneider M. Gans M.J. |
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Affiliation: | AT&T Bell Lab., Holmdel, NJ; |
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Abstract: | The authors describe a subharmonically pumped QPSK modulator and demodulator using pairs of beam-leaded Schottky diodes and appropriate high-pass and low-pass filters on dielectric substrates. A modulator and a demodulator were operated in cascade at a carrier frequency of 13 GHz with a common pump at 6.5 GHz. This circuit showed clean eye diagrams of the recovered data trains up to 1.5 Gb/s with corresponding error rates of less than 10-11. The circuits can be readily scaled to higher frequencies with a proportional increase of the information rate |
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