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THz Communications using Photonics and Electronic Devices: the Race to Data-Rate

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With the mass development of mobile data transfers, wireless communications have recently entered a new area: the carrier frequency is now entering the THz region. After a brief overview of context and key features of THz communication, focus is given on photonic-based THz emitters based on quasi-optic UTC-PDs. A special design of wideband photomixer is presented and its applications for narrow bandwidth THz generation. Using this photomixer, communication links at 200, 400 and 600 GHz are presented.

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Acknowledgment

The authors would like to thank F. Mollot, X. Wallart, and C. Coinon for UTC-PD epitaxial growth, D. Ducatteau, S. Lepilliet, and V. Avramovic of IEMN characterization center. The authors also thank the IRCICA/IEMN Telecom platform (R. Kassi) for the BERT supply and discussions. The authors would also like to thank Agilent Technologies and Anritsu for PRBS tests and Teledyne Lecroy for providing the 45-GHz serial data analyzer.

This work has been partially supported by the European commission in the framework of initial training network (ITN) MITEPHO Marie Curie program, the “Agence Nationale de la Recherche” in the “WITH” ANR/JST franco-japanese project. The authors thanks T. Nagatsuma and his team for the join experiments at 200 GHz, and the University of Montpellier for common experiments at IEMN. This work has also been supported also by Ministry of Higher Education and Research, Nord-Pas de Calais Regional Council and FEDER through the “Contrat de Projets Etat Région “Campus Intelligente Ambiante” (CPER-CIA) 2007-2013”, the equipex program “FLUX”, Fiber optics for high Fluxes and the “COM’TONIQ” ANR project (grant ANR-13-INFR-0011-01).

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    Guillaume Ducournau, Fabio Pavanello, Emilien Peytavit, Mohammed Zaknoune, Alexandre Beck, Tahsin Akalin, Jean-François Lampin & Jean-François Lampin

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Ducournau, G., Szriftgiser, P., Pavanello, F. et al. THz Communications using Photonics and Electronic Devices: the Race to Data-Rate. J Infrared Milli Terahz Waves 36, 198–220 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10762-014-0112-x

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