Microwave Photonics, 2nd Edition

3	Ultrawide-Band Sub-THz Photonic Wireless Links* Ci-Ling Pan and Jin-Wei Shi

CONTENTS

3.1    Introduction

3.2    Approaches for Photonic Millimeter and Sub-Millimeter Wave Sources

3.2.1    Optical Heterodyning and Homodyning

3.2.2    Spectral Filtering of Mode-Locked Pulse Train

3.2.3    Other Approaches

3.3    Millimeter-Wave and Sub-Millimeter Wave Photonic Transmitters

3.3.1    High-Power/Speed Photodetectors

3.3.2    Low-Temperature Grown-GaAs-Based Photonic Transmitter

3.3.3    Near-Ballistic Uni-Traveling-Carrier Photodiode-Based Photonic Transmitter

3.4    Photonic MMW Wireless Links

3.5    Prospects and Conclusion

References

3.1    INTRODUCTION

Up to now, the most widely used wireless communication band is located in the frequency ...