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IEEE Microwave and Guided Wave Letters
Volume 10 Number 7, July 2000

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Fully Monolithic Four Channel Transmitter IC for RF/Optical Subcarrier Multiplexed Communications

S. Han, C.-H. Lee, B. Matinpour, J. Laskar, Member, IEEE and D. J. Blumenthal Senior Member, IEEE

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Abstract:

A compact four channel RF/optical subcarrier multiplexed (OSCM) transmitter MMIC has been implemented in a commercial 0.6-µm GaAs MESFET process. The designed MMIC consists of four voltage controlled oscillators (VCO) with a frequency range of 3.8-5.5GHz for subcarrier generation and four modulators for on-off keying (OOK) subcarrier modulation. This MMIC supports up to 200 Mb/s data rate per each channel. This transmitter IC occupies a die area of 120 × 120 mil2. We present design and characterization of the first fully monolithic four channel transmitter IC for multichannel OSCM link applications.

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