Abstract
This article presents a 20–43.5-GHz mm-wave silicon photonic reconfigurable receiver (RX) front-end (FE) for wideband mm-wave 5G systems. The wideband front-end consists of an input electro-optic (E/O) converter, a silicon photonic integrated circuit (PIC), and an output opto-electric (O/E) converter. The silicon PIC is programmable either as a mm-wave band-pass filter (BPF) for channel selection and jammer rejection or as a mm-wave notch filter for jammer rejection in adjacent and alternate channels. Both the BPF and notch filter center frequencies are continuously tunable over a 20- and 43.5-GHz range, with the BPF bandwidth also configurable between 4.7-6-GHz. In order to show the effect of in-band jammer rejection on improving system linearity and overall received signal quality, a 4-channel system is demonstrated with the BPF configured with 5-GHz 3-dB bandwidth. The whole mm-wave system is optimized for minimum noise figure (
$NF$
), maximum linearity (third-order input intercept point (
$IIP_{3}$
) and input 1-dB compression power (
$IP_{\text{1}\,\text{dB}}$
), and maximum signal to noise ratio (SNR) through modulator bias control and optical amplification. An IM
$_{3}$
reduction, and thus IIP
$_{3}$
improvement, of 22.5-
$\text{dB}$
is achieved. This yields an average error vector magnitude (EVM) improvement of 4.5-
$\text{dB}$
at 20-GHz and 50-
$\text{Msps}$
16-quadrature amplitude modulation (16-QAM), with an overall EVM of −25.5-
$\text{dB}$
. To the best of the authors' knowledge, this is the first silicon photonic implementation of a wideband reconfigurable mm-wave RX that covers the entire mm-wave sub-45-GHz band.
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