300 GHz wireless communication systems exploiting the benefits of combining photonic and electronic transceiver components
Abstract
The contribution presents a wireless data transmission experiment combining photonic and electronic technologies. The photonic transmitter is based on the use of unitraveling-carrier (ETC) photodiodes. The electronic receiver is based on multi-functional monolithic integrated circuits realized in high electron mobility transistor (IIEMT) technology for low noise pre-amplification as well as integrated I/Q detection. The combination of both is interesting towards the achievement of larger distances and high data-rates for future THz links In this paper we present an initial experiment where 80 Gbit/s were achieved, carried out in the context of a join French-German research initiative.