TeraHertz Photonics for Wireless Communications

By A. Seeds, H. Shams, M. Fice, Cyril C. Renaud. Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2015

332 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Optical fibre transmission has enabled greatly increased transmission rates with 10 Gb/s common in local area networks. End users find wireless access highly convenient for mobile communication. However, limited spectrum availability at microwave frequencies results in per-user transmission rates limited to much lower values, e.g., 500 Mb/s for 5-GHz band IEEE 802.11ac. Extending the high data-rate capacity of optical fiber transmission to wireless devices requires greatly increased carrier frequencies. This paper will describe how photonic techniques can enable ultrahigh capacity wireless data distribution and transmission using signals at millimeter-wave and TeraHertz (THz) frequencies.

Subfields: Electrical and Electronic Engineering

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/126a406bdce3fe7a528fe009c162db618ef54237

Citations in the corpus

• III-V-on-Silicon Photonic Devices for Optical Communication and Sensing (2015, unknown): “generate such carriers is optical heterodyning [32,33].”