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Equivalent Photoconductive Time-Domain Sampling for Monitoring High-Speed Terahertz Communication Signals
Zhejiang Univ, Coll Informat Sci & Elect Engn, Hangzhou 310027, Peoples R China..
Zhejiang Univ, Coll Informat Sci & Elect Engn, Hangzhou 310027, Peoples R China..ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9567-155X
Zhejiang Univ, Coll Informat Sci & Elect Engn, Hangzhou 310027, Peoples R China..ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5250-5113
Zhejiang Univ, Coll Informat Sci & Elect Engn, Hangzhou 310027, Peoples R China..ORCID iD: 0009-0009-6610-8819
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2024 (English)In: Journal of Lightwave Technology, ISSN 0733-8724, E-ISSN 1558-2213, Vol. 42, no 13, p. 4476-4484Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Over the past few years, numerous photonic-wireless transmission demonstrations with high data rates in the terahertz (THz) band have been reported, aiming to supporting the explosive growth of data traffic in next-generation communication networks. Usually, real-time analysis of THz signals is implemented in the intermediate frequency domain by using electronic down-converters with limited bandwidth, which brings inconvenience to the monitoring of very large THz bandwidth. In this work, an equivalent-time sampling (ETS) system based on a conventional photoconductive antenna (PCA) for capturing and monitoring high-speed THz signals is proposed, theoretically analyzed, and experimentally demonstrated. The PCA, excited by optical pulses from a mode-locked laser (similar to 100 MHz) and biased by the THz fields, enables the equivalent optical sampling of THz signals into low-frequency regions. In our proof-of-concept experiment, a single-frequency signal at 125 GHz and 16-ary quadrature amplitude modulation (16-QAM) signals at a baud rate of 15 Gbaud at 125 GHz are successfully sampled, monitored, and evaluated with a similar to 100 MHz sampling rate. In this way, the high-speed THz signals can be easily accessible with no need of additional high-frequency components. The waveform distortion values for single-frequency and high-speed communication signal are 0.11%, 2.96% (in-phase) and 2.56% (quadrature). Our proposed ETS system is expected to provide a simple, convenient, and straightforward approach to capture and monitor broadband THz signals.

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) , 2024. Vol. 42, no 13, p. 4476-4484
Keywords [en]
Terahertz communications, Optical pulses, Terahertz radiation, Principal component analysis, Monitoring, Ultrafast optics, Bandwidth, Equivalent-time sampling, mode-locked laser, photoconductive sampling, signal quality monitoring, terahertz photonics
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Atom and Molecular Physics and Optics
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-351989DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2024.3372382ISI: 001266361400009Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85186980748OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-351989DiVA, id: diva2:1890650
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Available from: 2024-08-20 Created: 2024-08-20 Last updated: 2024-08-20Bibliographically approved

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