Wireless millimeter-wave-lightwave signal converter using stacked patch-antennas embedded with a micrometer-gap and electro-optic crystal

Author(s):  
Hironori Aya ◽  
Toshiyuki Inoue ◽  
Hiroshi Murata ◽  
Yasuyuki Okamura ◽  
Yusuf Nur Wijayanto ◽  
...  
Author(s):  
Hiroshi Murata ◽  
Hironori Aya ◽  
Toshiyuki Inoue ◽  
Atsushi Sanada ◽  
Yusuf Nur Wijayanto ◽  
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2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (4-5) ◽  
pp. 759-765 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yusuf Nur Wijayanto ◽  
Atsushi Kanno ◽  
Hiroshi Murata ◽  
Tetsuya Kawanishi ◽  
Naokatsu Yamamoto ◽  
...  

An array of patch-antennas with meandering-gaps on an optical modulator is proposed for wireless millimeter-wave beam-steering through high-speed radio-over-fiber systems. Wireless millimeter-wave can be received by the array of patch-antennas and directly modulated to lightwave by the optical modulator. The wireless millimeter-wave can be steered using the meandering-gaps at the patch-antennas by controlling interaction between millimeter-wave and lightwave electric fields in electro-optic modulation. The basic operation and analysis of the proposed device are discussed. In the experiment, 5 × 5 antenna array in 40 GHz millimeter-wave bands was designed and realized for device characterization and demonstration to wireless millimeter-wave beam-steering. There were five variations of wireless millimeter-wave beam-steering for one-dimensional in xz- or yz-planes that can be obtained with wireless millimeter-wave steerable beams of about ±30°. Additionally, 25 variations of wireless beam-steering can be obtained for two dimension in xyz-space through orthogonal optical modulation. The proposed device is promising to be applied in millimeter-wave/tera-hertz bands for future directional wireless communication and sensing with high-speed and high-resolution operation.


2015 ◽  
Vol 23 (7) ◽  
pp. 9464 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. H. Park ◽  
V. R. Pagán ◽  
T. E. Murphy ◽  
J. Luo ◽  
A. K.-Y. Jen ◽  
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