Nonlinear Dynamics of Resonant Tunneling Optoelectronic Circuits for Wireless/Optical Interfaces

We report on experimental and modeling results on the nonlinear dynamics of a resonant-tunneling-diode-based (RTD) optoelectronic circuits that can be used as the basis of a wireless/optical interface for wireless access networks. The RTD-based circuits are optoelectronic integrated circuits that have negative differential resistance and act as optoelectronic voltage-controlled oscillators. These circuits display many of the features of classic nonlinear dynamics, including chaos and synchronization. These highly nonlinear oscillators behaves as injection-locked oscillators that can be synchronized by a small injection signal of either wireless or optical origin, and thus, can transfer phase encoded information from wireless to the optical domain or the optical to the wireless domain.

[1]  A N Pisarchik,et al.  Experimental observation of two-state on-off intermittency. , 2002, Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics.

[2]  Yutaka Ohno,et al.  50 GHz frequency divider using resonant tunnelling chaos circuit , 2002 .

[3]  C. Ironside,et al.  Investigation Into the Integration of a Resonant Tunnelling Diode and an Optical Communications Laser: Model and Experiment , 2007, IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics.

[4]  Charles N. Ironside,et al.  Self-oscillation and period adding from resonant tunnelling diode-laser diode circuit , 2008 .

[5]  Maria J. Avedillo,et al.  Synchronisation and chaos in a laser diode driven by a resonant tunnelling diode , 2008 .

[6]  Parlitz,et al.  Period-doubling cascades and devil's staircases of the driven van der Pol oscillator. , 1987, Physical review. A, General physics.

[7]  Jürgen Kurths,et al.  Synchronization: Phase locking and frequency entrainment , 2001 .

[8]  Adonis Bogris,et al.  Chaos-based communications at high bit rates using commercial fibre-optic links , 2006, SPIE/OSA/IEEE Asia Communications and Photonics.

[9]  P. P. Smyth.  Optical Radio — A Review of a Radical New Technology for Wireless Access Infrastructure , 2003 .

[10]  C.L. Goldsmith,et al.  High-speed resonant-tunneling photodetectors with low-switching energy , 1997, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters.

[11]  H.J. De Los Santos,et al.  Physics-based RTD current-voltage equation , 1996, IEEE Electron Device Letters.

[12]  Charles N. Ironside,et al.  Superhigh-frequency characteristics of optical modulators on the basis of InGaAlAs resonance-tunnel heterostructures , 2000 .

[13]  Safumi Suzuki,et al.  One THz harmonic oscillation of resonant tunneling diodes , 2005 .

[14]  Jouni Mikkonen,et al.  Wireless LAN access network architecture for mobile operators , 2001 .

[15]  Kwang-Seok Seo,et al.  A high‐power MMIC VCO utilizing metamorphic HEMT technology , 2007 .

[16]  Yutaka Ohno,et al.  Direct Observation of High-Frequency Chaos Signals from the Resonant Tunneling Chaos Generator , 2004 .

[17]  R. Adler.  A Study of Locking Phenomena in Oscillators , 1946, Proceedings of the IRE.

[18]  Kimikazu Sano,et al.  88 GHz dynamic 2:1 frequency divider using resonant tunnelling chaos circuit , 2003 .

[19]  B. Razavi.  A study of injection locking and pulling in oscillators , 2004, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits.

[20]  Maria Morant,et al.  Radio-over-fiber transport for the support of wireless broadband services [Invited] , 2009 .

[21]  M. Sauer,et al.  Radio over fiber for picocellular network architectures , 2009, 2009 IEEE LEOS Annual Meeting Conference Proceedings.

[22]  J. Whitaker,et al.  Picosecond switching time measurement of a resonant tunneling diode , 1988 .

[23]  Simon Verghese,et al.  Resonant-tunneling transmission-line relaxation oscillator , 1993 .

[24]  Invited Paw,et al.  Injection Locking of Microwave Solid-State Oscillators , 1973 .

[25]  C. Ironside,et al.  Electric field switching in a resonant tunneling diode electroabsorption modulator , 2001, 8th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Electron Devices for Microwave and Optoelectronic Applications (Cat. No.00TH8534).

[26]  Jürgen Kurths,et al.  Synchronization - A Universal Concept in Nonlinear Sciences , 2001, Cambridge Nonlinear Science Series.

[27]  Thomas H. Lee,et al.  The Design of CMOS Radio-Frequency Integrated Circuits: RF CIRCUITS THROUGH THE AGES , 2003 .

[28]  B. Romeira,et al.  A LiÉnard Oscillator Resonant Tunnelling Diode-Laser Diode Hybrid Integrated Circuit: Model and Experiment , 2008, IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics.

[29]  Simon Verghese,et al.  Phase noise of a resonant-tunneling relaxation oscillator , 1998 .