The Research on 220GHz Multicarrier High-Speed Communication System

This paper presents our investigation into a 220 GHz multicarrier highspeed communication system based on solid state transceivers. The proposed system has eased the demand of high sampling rate analog-to-digital converter(ADC) by providing several signal carriers in microwave band and converting them to 220 GHz channel. The system consists of a set of 220 GHz solid-state transceiver with 2 signal carriers, two basebands for 4 GSPS ADCs. It has achieved 12.8 Gbps rate real-time signal transmission using 16 QAM modulation over a distance of 20 m without any other auxiliary equipment or test instruments. The baseband algorithm overcomes the problem of frequency difference generates by non-coherent structure, which guarantees the feasibility of long-distance transmission application. Most importantly, the proposed system has already carried out multi-channel 8 K video parallel transmission through switch equipment, which shows the multicarrier high-speed communication system in submillimeter wave has great application prospects. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first all-solid-state electronics multicarrier communication system in submillimeter and terahertz band.