• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.45 no.3
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• pp.1-6
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• 2008

A dual band I/Q modulator which converts baseband input signals to 2.4GHz or 5GHz RF output has been proposed. The dual band I/Q modulator for 2.4GHz and 5GHz wireless LAN applications consists of $90^{\circ}$ phase shifter and wideband mixer. The I/Q modulator showed 15dB conversion loss at 2.4GHz and 16dB conversion loss at 5GHz. The sideband suppression is about 15dBc at 2.4GHz and 16dBc at 5GHz. Measured data shows 8.5% EVM at 2.4GHz, and 10% EVM at 5GHz for QPSK with symbol rate of 11Mbps. A carrier rejection is about 40dBc at 2.4GHz/5GHz band, and the I/Q modulator satisfied the output wireless LAN spectrum mask with baseband input signal.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.1009-1014
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• 2012

This paper has proposed a 2,500 MHz ~ 2,570 MHz 0.13-${\mu}m$ CMOS RF front-end transmitter for LTE-Advanced systems. The proposed RF front-end transmitter is composed of a quadrature up-conversion mixer and a driver amplifier. The measurement results show the maximum output power level is +6 dBm and the suppression ratio for the image sideband and LO leakage are better than -40 dBc respectively. The fabricated chip consumes 36 mA from a 1.2 V supply voltage.

• Current Optics and Photonics
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• v.4 no.4
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• pp.310-316
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• 2020

We propose and experimentally demonstrate an all-optical radio frequency (RF) spectrum broadening system based on time compression. By utilizing the procedure of dispersion compensation values, the frequency domain is broadened by compressing the linear chirp optical pulse which has been multiplexed by the radio frequency. A detailed mathematical description elucidates that the time compression is a very preferred scheme for spectrum broadening. We also report experimental results to prove this method, magnification factor at 2.7, 8 and 11 have been tested with different dispersion values of fiber, the experimental results agree well with the theoretical results. The proposed system is flexible and the magnification factor is determined by the dispersion values, the proposed scheme is a linear system. In addition, the influence of key parameters, for instance optical bandwidth and the sideband suppression ratio (SSR), are discussed. Magnification factor 11 of the proposed system is demonstrated.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.27 no.9C
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• pp.871-878
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• 2002

The cartesian loop chip which is one of key devices in narrow-band Walky-Talky transmitter using RZ-SSB modulation method was designed and implemented with 0.35 ㎛ CMOS technology. The reduced size and low cost of transmitter were available by the use of direct-conversion and cartesian loop chip, which improved the power efficiency and linearity of transmitter. In addition, low power operation was possible through CMOS technology. The performance test results of transmitter showed -23㏈c improvement of IMD and -30㏈c below suppression of SSB characteristic in the operation of cartesian loop chip (closed-loop). At that time, the transmitting power was about 37㏈m (5W). The main parameters to improve the transmitting characteristic and to compensate the distortion in feed back loop such as DC-offset, loop gain and phase value are interfaced with notebook PC to be controlled with S/W.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.44 no.3 s.357
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• pp.20-25
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• 2007

The periodic domain-inversion in the selective areas of $Ti:LiNbO_3$ Mach-Zender waveguides was performed and band-pass modulators and single sideband (SSB) modulators were fabricated by using domain-reversal. The domain wall velocity was precisely controlled by real-time analysis of a poling-induced response current under an applied voltage. The domain wall velocity was significantly affected by the crystal orientation of the domain wall propagation which influenced the final domain geometry. In a certain case, the decomposition of $LiNbO_3$ crystal was observed, for example, under the condition of too fast domain wall propagation. The fabricated band-pass modulator with a periodic domain-inversion structure showed the maximum modulation efficiency at 30.3 GHz with 5.1 GHz 3dB-bandwidth, and SSB modulator was measured to show 33 dB USB suppression over LSB at 5.8 GHz RF.