A Low-Voltage,Low-Power CMOS High Dynamic Range dB-Linear VGA for Super Heterodyne Receivers

This paper presents a low-voltage low-power variable gain amplifier,which is applied in the automatic gain control loop of a super heterodyne receiver. Six stages are cascaded to provide an 81dB digitally controlled gain range in a 3dB step. The gain step error is less than 0.5dB. It operates at an intermediate frequency of 300kHz, and the power consumption is 1.35mW from a 1.8V supply. The prototype chip is implemented in a TSMC＇s 0.18μm 1P6M CMOS process and occupies approximately 0.24mm^2 . It is very suitable for portable wire- less communication systems. The measurement results agree well with the system requirements.

Spectrally sliced heterodyne coherent receiver with halved electrical bandwidth

A spectrally sliced heterodyne coherent receiver(SHCR)employing four balanced photodetectors and analog-to-digital converters with half of the signal bandwidth is proposed to complete the signal reception and field recovery.We first numerically characterize the performance of SHCR compared with an intradyne coherent receiver and then validate the principle of the SHCR in a proof-of-concept single-polarization experiment.A 60 GBaud 16-quadrature amplitude modulation transmission is experimentally demonstrated over 80 km standard single-mode fiber with a bit-error-rate of 8.5×10^(-4) below the 7%hard-decision forward error correction threshold of 3.8×10^(-3).The SHCR offers a low-cost,hybrid-free,and channel-skew-tolerant candidate for data center interconnects.

The Study on Heterodyne and Phase Diversity Coherent Optical Fiber Communication Systems and Their Components

The research in Coherent Optical Fiber Communication Systems (COFCS) using long waveband semiconductor laser diodes as transmitter and local oscillator has evolved gradually from an esteric subject studied in just a few communication laboratories around the world to the field demonstration stage. This is mainly because of the possibility of receiver sensitivity improvement reaching 10～20 dB, that of frequency division multiplexing (FDM) with very fine frequency separation and the possibility of using electronic equalization network to compensate for the effect of optical pulse dispersion in the Single Mode Fiber (SMF). The author of the dissertation has engaged in the study on COFCSs since 1987. Undergoing 3 years of hard work, the finished research work includes two parts: Part I is the study on heterodyne COFCSs and their key components; Part II is the study on two branch phase diversity COFCS and its components. In the first part, using the Lamb′s semi classical theory and the model of vector field, the effects of various kinds of parameters, such as cavity detuning, cavity′s Q factor and the transverse magnetic field strength, on the intramode beat frequency tuning characteristics are analyzed. On the basis of the theoretical analysis, the equipment of 1 523 nm He Ne Stabilized Transverse Zeeman Lasee (STZL) with high frequency stability and certain continuous single frequency tuning range, has been established domestically for the first time. With the development of long waveband semi conductor laser diodes fabricated domestically, the author mainly deals with the long waveband COFCSs using semiconductor laser diodes as transmitter and local oscillator. To counter the poor spectrum characteristics of the conventional double heterojunction semi conductor laser diodes, the characteristics of 1.5 um InGaAsP GRINROD External Cavity Semi conductor Lasers (ECSL) in the case of strong and weak feedback conditions, is experimentally studied. Then the GRINROD Dissertation completed Apr.1991ECSLs with complete closed and compact structure are developed. Using this kind of lasers and other components made domestically, the long waveband large deviation FSK heterodyne single filter/ envelope detection systems and small deviation FSK heterodyne single filter/delay line frequency discriminator detection system are achieved for the first time. In those experiments, the frequency modulation characteristics, line width, single frequency continuous tuning range and frequency stability of the GRINROD ECSL are measured by means of IF spectrum. Meanwhile, the IF receiving circuits are optimized for obtaining stable transmission properties. The main research achievements in part II are the theoretical analysis of the diversity COFCSs. Firstly, the Bit Error Rate (BER) performance of two branch homodyne phase diversity ASK, DPSK and two branch homodyne phase polarization DPSK receivers are analyzed by means of characteristic function model. In the analysis, the effects of pre and post detection filters on the system performance are especially studied. Secondly, the impacts of the phase noise, shot noise, polarization mismatch and imbalance of branch circuits on the two branch homodyne phase diversity ASK receiver, and that of modulation frequency deviation on FSK receiver are analyzed in terms of Gaussian approximation. Lastly, an improved all fiber 90 degree optical hybrid is fabricated. Utilizing the hybrid and 1.5 um InGaAsP GRINROD and grating ECSLs, a low IF, two branch phase diversity FSK coherent optical fiber transmission system is experimented for the first time in China. Guan Kejian Born in Jan. 1963. He received his Ph. D degree in Apr. 1991, in Radio Engineering, Beijing Uni versity of Posts and Telecommunications.