Fabrication and Performance of Passive Linear Electric Field Frequency Discriminator Filter for 5G Phase-Modulated Microwave Photonic Links

• Main Authors: Charalambous, Georgios, Madamopoulos, Nicholas, Dingel, Benjamin, Iezekiel, Stavros
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2020
• Subjects: Optical fibers; Optical device fabrication; Microwave photonics; Microwave measurement; Microwave communication; Masers; Integrated circuit interconnections; electric field discriminator; Sin-Sin2; FM/PM to AM conversion; Optics; Physics
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/physics-faculty-pubs/117; https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9314558
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

We present the circuit design, fabrication in silicon-on-insulator (SOI) platform, and measurement of a linearized electric field discriminator (FD) filter, called Sin-Sin2. This low complexity FD is intended for advanced 5G phase/frequency-modulated direct-detection (PM/FM-DD) links.