8-PSK Upconverting Transmitter Using $E$ -Band Frequency Sextupler

Dhecha Nopchinda; Zhongxia He; Goran Granstrom; Marcus Gavell; Herbert Zirath

doi:10.1109/LMWC.2018.2792687

8-PSK Upconverting Transmitter Using $E$ -Band Frequency Sextupler

Dhecha Nopchinda^*
, Zhongxia He
, Goran Granstrom
, Marcus Gavell
, Herbert Zirath

^*Corresponding author for this work

Chalmers University of Technology
Gotmic AB

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Abstract

Operation of a frequency sextupler (X6) as a radio frequency (RF) $E$ -band upconverting transmitter is experimentally demonstrated. An 8-phase-shift keying signal is digitally upconverted to 13.1-GHz intermediate frequency (IF). The resulting signal then goes through the X6 resulting in IF-to-RF upconversion to 78.6 GHz without the need for high-frequency oscillator, mixer, or modulator. A simple one-sixth phase retardation of the baseband signal is used as digital predistortion. A full signal processing chain is implemented at the digital receiver. Techniques to mitigate remaining nonlinearity and worsened phase noise are considered.

Original language	English
Article number	8272033
Pages (from-to)	177-179
Number of pages	3
Journal	IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters
Volume	28
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/LMWC.2018.2792687
Publication status	Published - Feb 2018
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Data transmission
digital predistortion (DPD)
E-band
frequency multiplier
frequency sextupler
multiplierbased transmitter
nonlinearity
phase noise
phase retarder
phase-noise mitigation
phase-shift keying (PSK)
postdistortion

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