A BROAD-BAND FREE-SPACE MILLIMETER-WAVE VECTOR TRANSMISSION MEASUREMENT SYSTEM

被引:18
作者
KONISHI, Y
KAMEGAWA, M
CASE, M
YU, R
ALLEN, ST
RODWELL, MJW
机构
[1] Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
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D O I
10.1109/22.299747
中图分类号
TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
学科分类号
0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
We report both broadband monolithic transmitter and receiver IC's for mm-wave electromagnetic measurements. The IC's use a nonlinear transmission line (NLTL) and a sampling circuit as a picosecond pulse generator and detector. The pulses are radiated and received by planar monolithic bow-tie antennas, collimated with silicon substrate lenses and off-axis parabolic reflectors. Through Fourier transformation of the received pulse, accurate 30-250 GHz free space gain-frequency and phase-frequency measurements are demonstrated. Systems design considerations are discussed, and a variety of mm-wave broadband transmission measurements are demonstrated.
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页码:1131 / 1139
页数:9
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