Silicon Photonics for Millimeter-Wave Band Signal Generation
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Porzi, Claudio; Malacarne, Antonio; Scotti, Filippo; Scaffardi, Mirco; Ghelfi, Paolo; Bogoni, Antonella
- Source
- 2023 23rd International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON) Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2023 23rd International Conference on. :1-4 Jul, 2023
- Subject
- Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Photonics and Electrooptics
Signal Processing and Analysis
Transportation
Wireless communication
Radio frequency
Phase noise
Synthesizers
Millimeter wave technology
RF signals
Silicon-on-insulator
photonic integrated circuits
millimetre wave band signal generation
silicon photonics
- Language
- ISSN
- 2161-2064
Millimeter (mm-)wave band enables low-latency high-capacity wireless communications for 5G and 6G networks as well as high resolution imaging for advanced radar/sensing systems. The recent progresses in the development of compact RF signal synthesizers based on photonic integration technology using silicon on insulator platform are overviewed in this paper. Different architectures are discussed, and preliminary results confirms generation of a 100 GHz carrier wave starting from a 20 GHz reference oscillator with negligible excess phase noise, as well as the possibility of extending the operation over the whole mm-wave band.