高增益偏振不灵敏InGaAs/InP体材料半导体光放大器

采用三元InGaAs体材料为有源区，通过直接在InGaAs体材料中引入0．20％张应变来加强TM模的增益，研制了一种适合于作波长变换器的偏振不灵敏半导体光放大器(SOA)。在低压金属有机化学气相外延(LPMOVPE)的过程中，只需调节三甲基Ga的源流量便可获得所要求的张应变量。制作的半导体光放大器在200mA的注入电流下，获得了50nm宽的3dB光带宽和小于0．5dB的增益抖动；重要的是，半导体光放大器能在较大的电流和波长范围里实现小于1．1dB的偏振灵敏度。对于1．55gm波长的信号光，在200mA的偏置下，其偏振灵敏度小于1dB，同时获得了大于14dB光纤到光纤的增益，3dBm的饱和输出功率和大于30dB的芯片增益。用作波长变换器，可获得较高的波长变换效率。进一步提高半导体光放大器与光纤的耦合效率，可得到性能更佳的半导体光放大器。     

具有高可调增益范围的CMOS宽带中频调制器

利用TSMC 0 .2 5 μmCMOS混合工艺 ,针对超外差结构的无线宽带收发器 ,实现了一个能够工作在 5 0～6 0 0MHz的中频调制器 ,并对该调制器进行了仿真和测试。由于该调制器在输出端采用了一个具有高可调增益范围而且鲁棒性能好的可变增益放大器 (VGA) ,从而使得该调制器具有超过 70dB的增益可调范围。测试结果表明 ,该调制器能够工作在 5 0～ 6 0 0MHz的频率上 ,输出功率为 - 81～ - 10dBm ,最小增益的输出噪声为 - 130dBm/ Hz,最大增益的输出P1dB点为 - 4 .3dBm ,在 3V的电源电压下 ,电流功耗为 32mA。     

基于GaN 的3. 4~ 3. 6 GHz 高增益Doherty 功率放大器

基于两级功率放大器架构,设计了一款平均输出功率为37 dBm(5 W)的高增益Doherty 功率放大器。 该器件通过增加前级驱动功率放大器提高Doherty 功率放大器的增益,采用反向Doherty 功率放大器架构,将λ/4 波 长传输线放置在辅助功放后端,相位补偿线放置在主功放前端,并使主功放输出匹配网络采用双阻抗匹配技术实现 阻抗变换,如此可扩宽功率放大器的工作带宽。连续波测试结果显示:3. 4~3. 6 GHz 工作频段内,饱和输出功率在 44. 5 dBm 以上,功率饱和工作点PAE 在43. 9%以上;在平均输出功率(37 dBm,5 W)工作点,回退量大于7. 5 dB,功 率附加效率PAE 为36. 8%以上,功率增益在31 dB 以上。     

An ultrawide-band semiconductor optical amplifier having an extremely high penalty-free output power of 23 dBm achieved with quantum dots

A semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) having a gain of >25 dB, noise figure of <5 dB, and 3-dB saturation output power of >19 dBm, over the record widest bandwidth of 90 nm among all kinds of optical amplifiers, and also having a penalty-free output power of 23 dBm, the record highest among all the SOAs, was realized by using quantum dots.     

1.55 μm polarisation independent semiconductor optical amplifierwith 25 dB fiber to fiber gain

Using a tapered in width square active waveguide and bulk InGaAsP/InP material we demonstrate a polarisation independent amplifier structure operating at 1550 nm with a reduced far-field divergence. Improvement of coupling efficiency enables us to achieve a 25 dB fiber to fiber gain together with 9 dBm fiber saturation output power for 150 mA bias current. A 200 ps gain recovery time allows fast gating or wavelength conversion     

用于WCDMA的高线性，高增益精度的直接变频发射机

本文描述了一个高线性,高输出功率的直接变频发射机。该发射机针对宽频码分多工存取标准设计,在0.13微米CMOS工艺下实现。本系统最大输出功率为6.8dBm,消耗的电流为38mA。在最大输出功率下,邻道功率泄漏（ACLR）和载波泄漏分别为-44dBc@5MHz和-37dBc,相应的误差矢量振幅（EVM）为3.6%。整个系统可以以6dB为步长实现66dB的增益控制范围,通过电阻阵列的微调功能,增益控制精度可以达到0.1dB以内。系统的镜像抑制比可以在整个输出范围内保持在-47dBc以下。     

CMOS highly linear direct-conversion transmitter for WCDMA with fine gain accuracy

A highly linear,high output power,0.13μm CMOS direct conversion transmitter for wideband code division multiple access(WCDMA) is described.The transmitter delivers 6.8 dBm output power with 38 mA current consumption.With careful design on the resistor bank in the IQ-modulator,the gain step accuracy is within 0.1 dB,hence the image rejection ratio can be kept below—47 dBc for the entire output range.The adjacent channel leakage ratio and the LO leakage at 6.8 dBm output power are -44 dBc @ 5 MHz and -37 dBc,respectively,and the corresponding EVM is 3.6%.The overall gain can be programmed in 6 dB steps in a 66-dB range.     

A low power high gain UWB LNA in 0.18-μm CMOS

A low power high gain differential UWB low noise amplifier (LNA) operating at 3-5 GHz is presented.A common gate input stage is used for wideband input matching; capacitor cross coupling (CCC) and current reuse techniques are combined to achieve high gain under low power consumption. The prototypes fabricated in 0.18-μm CMOS achieve a peak power gain of 17.5 dB with a -3 dB bandwidth of 2.8-5 GHz, a measured minimum noise figure (NF) of 3.35 dB and -12.6 dBm input-referred compression point at 5 GHz, while drawing 4.4 mA from a 1.8 V supply. The peak power gain is 14 dB under a 4.5 mW power consumption (3 mA from a 1.5 V supply). The proposed differential LNA occupies an area of 1.01 mm~2 including test pads.     

31~38 GHz宽带高效率GaAs中功率放大器芯片

为实现毫米波放大器芯片的宽带、高增益和高效率,基于GaAs pHEMT工艺实现高增益,采用四级级联拓扑结构拓展带宽,利用电流复用结构降低直流功耗,采用T型电抗匹配技术实现最佳输出功率和效率匹配,成功实现了一款31~38 GHz频段的毫米波宽带高效率功率放大器芯片。测试结果表明,该功率放大器芯片在31~38 GHz宽带范围内,线性增益为26~29 dB,饱和输出功率为21.5 dBm,动态电流低于100 mA,饱和效率≥37%,在32~35 GHz内最高效率达45%。     

AlGaInAs-InP材料系1550nm偏振无关半导体光放大器

采用低压金属有机气相外延设备生长并制作了1550nm AlGaInAs-InP偏振无关半导体光放大器,有源区为3周期的张应变量子阱结构,应变量为-0.40%.器件制作成脊型波导结构,并采用7°斜腔结构以有效抑制腔面反射.经蒸镀减反膜后,半导体光放大器的自发辐射功率的波动小于0.3dB,3dB带宽为56nm.半导体光放大器小信号增益近20dB,带宽大于55nm.在1500～1590nm波长范围内偏振灵敏度小于0.8dB,峰值增益波长的饱和输出功率达7.2dBm.     

A Ku band four-stage PHEMT 1W MMIC power amplifier

A successful development of a very high performance and reliable power PHEMT MMIC technology is reported. In this paper, a Ku-Band 1 W AlGaAs/InGaAs/GaAs PHEMT MMIC power amplifier for VSAT ODU application is demonstrated. This four-stage amplifier is designed to fully match for a 50 Ω input and output impedance. With 7 V and 700 mA DC bias condition, the amplifier has achieved 30 dB small-signal gain, 30.8 dBm 1-dB gain compression power with 24.5% power-added efficiency (PAE) and 31.3 dBm saturation power with 27.5% PAE from 14 to 17 GHz.     

Gain properties and optical-feedback suppression of asymmetrical curved active waveguides

Elaborately-designed asymmetrical curved active waveguides are introduced to improve the gain properties of semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs) by internal distributed optical-feedback suppression. An analytical model of the double-energy-level system is utilized in the simulation and designed by the finite difference time domain (FDTD) method. Under a 280 mA driving current, the optimized curved SOA with the simple device structure without isolators performs a more than 18 dB fiber-to-fiber gain, 980 μW spontaneous emission power, and 13 dBm saturation power.     

5～10 GHz MMIC低噪声放大器

采用稳懋公司150 nm GaAs赝配高电子迁移率晶体管(PHEMT)工艺,设计了一款5 ～ 10 GHz单片微波集成电路(MMIC)低噪声放大器(LNA).该LNA采用三级级联结构,且每一级采用相同的偏压条件,电路的低频工作端依靠电容反馈,高频工作端依靠电阻反馈调节阻抗匹配,从而实现宽带匹配,芯片面积为2.5 mm×1 mm.测试结果表明,工作频率为5～10 GHz,漏极电压为2.3V,工作电流为70 mA时,LNA的功率增益达到35 dB,平均噪声温度为82 K,在90％工作频段内输入输出回波损耗优于-15 dB,1 dB压缩点输出功率为10.3 dBm,仿真结果与实验结果具有很好的一致性.     

毫米波大动态宽带单片低噪声放大器

利用0.25μmGaAsPHEMT低噪声工艺,设计并制造了2种毫米波大动态宽带单片低噪声放大器。第1种为低增益大动态低噪声放大器,单电源+5V工作,测得在26～40GHz范围内,增益G=10±0.5dB,噪声系数NF≤2.2dB,1分贝压缩点输出功率P1dB≥15dBm;第2种为低压大动态低噪声放大器,工作电压为3.6V,静态电流0.6A(输出功率饱和时,动态直流电流约为0.9A),在28～35GHz范围内,测得增益G=14～17dB,噪声系数约4.0dB,1分贝压缩点输出功率P1dB≥24.5dBm,最大饱和输出功率≥26.8dBm,附加效率约10%～13.6%。结果中还给出了2种放大器直接级联的情况。     

High-gain, high-power 1.3 μm compressive strained MQW opticalamplifier

A high-gain and high-saturation output power optical amplifier operating in the 1.3-μm wavelength region that was fabricated using a compressive-strained multiple-quantum-well active region is described. It is shown that optical gain as high as 27 dB and 3-dB saturation output power as high as 14 dBm were obtained simultaneously     

A Ku-Band Interference-Rejection CMOS Low-Noise Amplifier Using Current-Reused Stacked Common-Gate Topology

A Ku-band CMOS low-noise amplifier (LNA) with high interference-rejection (IR), wide gain control range, and low dc power consumption is presented. The LNA consists of two common-gate metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors interconnected with an interstage parallel tank for the IR. The stacked common-gate stages share the same dc bias current to reduce power consumption and have controllable gain by changing this dc current. The implemented 0.13 mum CMOS LNA achieves measured power gain of 10.8 dB, noise figure of 4.2 dB, output P₁ dB of -4.3 dBm at 15 GHz, while rejecting interference down to a 38.5 dB level. The gain control range is 23.3 dB by varying the gate voltage from 0.2 to 1.2 V. The LNA consumes only 4 mA from a 1.3-V supply.     

A broad-band MQW semiconductor optical amplifier with high saturation output power and low noise figure

A broad-band semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) that achieves both a high chip saturation output power and a low chip noise figure (NF) was developed by using a thin multiquantum well with low internal loss. The SOA exhibited a high chip saturation output power of >+19.6 dBm and a low chip NF of <4.5 dB over a 3-dB gain bandwidth of 120 nm (1450-1570 nm). For the amplification of optical signals modulated at 40-Gb/s nonreturn-to-zero format, a penalty-free amplification was confirmed up to an average chip output power of +18.1 dBm.     

A 184 mW Fully Integrated DVB-H Tuner With a Linearized Variable Gain LNA and Quadrature Mixers Using Cross-Coupled Transconductor

A fully integrated direct conversion DVB-H tuner is realized in a 0.5-mum SiGe BiCMOS technology. To meet the stringent linearity requirement while keeping low power consumption, novel linearization techniques for a variable-gain low-noise amplifier (VG-LNA) and a mixer are proposed. The proposed linearized VG-LNA has a variable gain range of over 50 dB, noise figure of less than 2.6 dB over the frequency range from 200 to 1000 MHz, and IIP3 of more than -10 dBm at a current consumption of 2.1 mA. The quadrature mixer with the proposed linearization technique achieves OIP3 of more than 25 dBm at a current consumption of 5 mA. In addition, a new offset-cancel feedback is introduced for the baseband block of a direct conversion receiver, which keeps the high-pass cutoff frequency independent of the baseband VGA gain. The fabricated tuner IC satisfies all the DVB-H requirements at a power consumption of 184 mW     

A low voltage CMOS RF front-end for IEEE 802.11b WLAN transceiver

A low voltage CMOS RF front-end for IEEE 802.11b WLAN transceiver is presented. The problems to implement the low voltage design and the on-chip input/output impedance matching are considered, and some improved circuits are presented to overcome the problems. Especially, a single-end input, differential output double balanced mixer with an on-chip bias loop is analyzed in detail to show its advantages over other mixers. The transceiver RF front-end has been implemented in 0.18 um CMOS process, the measured results show that the Rx front-end achieves 5.23 dB noise figure, 12.7 dB power gain (50 ohm load), −18 dBm input 1 dB compression point (ICP) and −7 dBm IIP3, and the Tx front-end could output +2.1 dBm power into 50 ohm load with 23.8 dB power gain. The transceiver RF front-end draws 13.6 mA current from a supply voltage of 1.8 V in receive mode and 27.6 mA current in transmit mode. The transceiver RF front-end could satisfy the performance requirements of IEEE802.11b WLAN standard. Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, No. 90407006 and No. 60475018.