Ultrawide-Bandwidth Single-Channel 0.4-THz Wireless Link Combining Broadband Quasi-Optic Photomixer and Coherent Detection

Free space communications with huge data capacity have become a key point for the development of mobile access, services, and network technologies convergence. Wireless links using emerging terahertz technologies, also referred to as T-ray communications, have become an intensive research field within last years since T-rays at the millimeter/submillimeter frontier remain more robust in terms of scintillation, dielectric obstacles, and fog compared with near-infrared signals. Using a passive THz hot-spot which can be fed by fiber optic networks, we investigate up bit rates up to 46 Gbps for a THz wireless transmission system at 400-GHz carrier frequency. Using a THz photomixer integrated with a specific broadband antenna and heterodyne electronic detection, we investigate the eye diagrams using 1-μW received power, highlighting the high sensitivity and ultra-wideband behavior of the whole THz system.

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