Third party funded individual grant
Acronym: EPIC-COM
Start date : 15.02.2024
End date : 14.02.2027
This project targets research on a scalable THz communication system with a large number of elements towards a massive phased-array approach. Such a solution poses a variety of different challenges that need to be investigated and overcome. Some of these are:
1. Design of sufficiently broadband phased-array components to utilize the available large bandwidth around 300 GHz
2. Flexible and low loss broadband baseband signal distribution for many channels
3. Power-efficient generation and coherent distribution of the low phase-noise THz local oscillator (LO) carrier frequency across massive amounts of channels
4. Efficient parallel multiplexed circuit concepts with a reduced number of interfaces
5. Design of large-scale, high-complexity optical and electrical systems
6. Modular circuit implementations with a high level of integration and simultaneous high yield for reliable massive THz systems
The project aims to address the above challenges based on a novel interdisciplinary architecture that combines optical and high-frequency electrical devices and building blocks in a coherent process utilizing an advanced version of an electronic photonic integrated circuit (EPIC) technology platform.