DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2024.3371914   IEEEXplore: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10472897

Reconfigurable hybrid millimeter-wave heterodyning software-defined radio (SDR) receiver that integrates RF silicon photonics and CMOS semiconductors.

30-45 GHz

Programmable photonic integrated circuit (PIC) with Hi-Q filters; Automatic calibration of center frequency, bandwidth and rejection; Autonomous detection and rejection of up to four out-of-band blockers.

5G and beyond wireless receiver applications above 30 GHz.

50 dB Spurious Free Dynamic Range (SFDR) over 5 GHz bandwidth; >65 dB rejection of up to four OOB blockers, >80 db for two blockers; -30 dB Error Vector Magnitude (EVM) for 100MSymbols/s 64-QAM affected by -10 dBm out-of-band (OOB) blockers at 5 and 10 GHz offsets.