A 180-GHz Super-Regenerative Oscillator with up to 58 dB Gain for Efficient Phase and Amplitude Recovery
Ghaleb H, Carlowitz C, Fritsche D, Starke P, Protze F, Carta C, Ellinger F (2020)
Publication Type: Journal article
Publication year: 2020
Journal
Book Volume: 68
Pages Range: 2011-2019
Article Number: 9086784
Journal Issue: 6
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2020.2987555
Abstract
A 180-GHz super-regenerative oscillator capable of 58 dB gain and fast switching at a rate up to 10 GHz is implemented in a 130nm SiGe BiCMOS technology. It is the fastest reported super-regenerative circuit in terms of data-rate and the first one to be packaged in a standalone mm-wave waveguide module. The oscillator has a tuning range of 6.5%, an output power of 0.5 dBm, and occupies an area of 0.72 mm2. When operated with a periodic quench signal, the circuit requires a minimum input power of -58 dBm for a phase coherent output. The circuit has a dc power consumption of 8.8 mW. QPSK and 8-phase shift keying (PSK) modulations with data rates up to 3 Gbit/s are demonstrated. The circuit is also integrated into a waveguide module and used to recover a wireless stream of 16QAM data at 16 Gbit/s, which is the highest reported in a super-regenerative circuit to date.
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APA:
Ghaleb, H., Carlowitz, C., Fritsche, D., Starke, P., Protze, F., Carta, C., & Ellinger, F. (2020). A 180-GHz Super-Regenerative Oscillator with up to 58 dB Gain for Efficient Phase and Amplitude Recovery. IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, 68(6), 2011-2019. https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TMTT.2020.2987555
MLA:
Ghaleb, Hatem, et al. "A 180-GHz Super-Regenerative Oscillator with up to 58 dB Gain for Efficient Phase and Amplitude Recovery." IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques 68.6 (2020): 2011-2019.
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