2023•Unpublished venueOpen access
Photonic integrated circuits for 5G-and-beyond networks: enabling the mmWave band and beyond with InP-based photomixers in integrated transceivers
Efstathios Andrianopoulos, Milan Deumer, Tianwen Qian, Nikolaos K. Lyras, Simon Nellen, Evangelos Pikasis, Georgia D. Ntouni, Eleftherios K. Loghis, Elias D. Tsirbas, David de Felipe Mesquida, Panos Groumas, Christos Tsokos, Maria Massaouti, Christos Kouloumentas, Dimitrios S. Kritharidis, Robert B. Kohlhaas, Norbert Keil, Martin A. Schell, H. Avramopoulos
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Abstract
Photonic integrated circuits (PICs) are one of the key enablers for beyond 5G networks. A novel generation of fully integrated photonic-enabled transceivers operating seamlessly in W- D- and THz-bands is developed within the EU funded project TERAWAY. Photonic integration technology enables key photonic functionalities on a single PIC including photonic up/down conversion. For efficient down-conversion at the photonic integrated receiver, we develop the first waveguide-fed photoconductive antenna for THz communications. Finally, we report on the experimental implementation of a fully photonic-enabled link operating across W- D- and THz-bands.
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