Building 5G millimeter-wave wireless infrastructure: wide-scan focal plane arrays with broadband optical beamforming

Adrianus Smolders; Aleksei Dubok; Netsanet M. Tessema; Zhe Chen; Ali Al-Rawi; Ulf Johannsen; Thomas Bressner; Dusan Milosevic; Hao Gao; Eduward Tangdiongga; Giampiero Gerini; Peter G.M. Baltus; Marcel Geurts; A.M.J. Ton Koonen

doi:10.1109/MAP.2019.2895662

Building 5G millimeter-wave wireless infrastructure: wide-scan focal plane arrays with broadband optical beamforming

Adrianus Smolders (Corresponding author), Aleksei Dubok (Corresponding author), Netsanet M. Tessema (Corresponding author), Zhe Chen (Corresponding author), Ali Al-Rawi (Corresponding author), Ulf Johannsen (Corresponding author), Thomas Bressner (Corresponding author), Dusan Milosevic (Corresponding author), Hao Gao (Corresponding author), Eduward Tangdiongga (Corresponding author), Giampiero Gerini (Corresponding author), Peter G.M. Baltus (Corresponding author), Marcel Geurts (Corresponding author), A.M.J. Ton Koonen (Corresponding author)

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Uittreksel

A wide-scan and broadband focal-plane array (FPA) concept is introduced that provides high antenna gain and effective isotropic radiated power (EIRP) with electronic beam-steering within a relative large field-of-view (FoV) up to +/-200. The antenna uses a bi-focal double-reflector concept that optimizes the illumination of the focal-plane region. In this way, we have reduced the required size of the feed array and have maximized the number of simultaneously active array elements. By using a photonics beamformer, a broadband system for the 20-40 GHz band can be created with a fiber-based interface to a central processing unit. This hybrid antenna system proves to be a very interesting concept for future 5G and beyond-5G millimeter-wave base-stations, two-way satellite communication systems and point-to-point wireless backhaul systems. A silicon BiCMOS low-noise amplifier and a photonic integrated circuit for the optical beamformer have been developed and integrated in the overall system. A system-level demonstrator was developed and experimentally validated in receive mode. Our concept provides an antenna gain of more than 40 dBi over a FoV of +/-15 degrees at 28.5 GHz.

Taal	Engels
Pagina's	53-62
Tijdschrift	IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine
Volume	61
Nummer van het tijdschrift	2
DOI's	10.1109/MAP.2019.2895662
Status	Gepubliceerd - apr 2019

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antenna gain

Focal plane arrays

beamforming

focal plane devices

Beamforming

Millimeter waves

millimeter waves

field of view

antennas

photonics

Antennas

broadband

satellite communication

high gain

Photonics

low noise

reflectors

integrated circuits

central processing units

telecommunication

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Smolders, A., Dubok, A., Tessema, N. M., Chen, Z., Al-Rawi, A., Johannsen, U., ... Koonen, A. M. J. T. (2019). Building 5G millimeter-wave wireless infrastructure: wide-scan focal plane arrays with broadband optical beamforming. IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine, 61(2), 53-62. DOI: 10.1109/MAP.2019.2895662

Smolders, Adrianus ; Dubok, Aleksei ; Tessema, Netsanet M. ; Chen, Zhe ; Al-Rawi, Ali ; Johannsen, Ulf ; Bressner, Thomas ; Milosevic, Dusan ; Gao, Hao ; Tangdiongga, Eduward ; Gerini, Giampiero ; Baltus, Peter G.M. ; Geurts, Marcel ; Koonen, A.M.J. Ton. / Building 5G millimeter-wave wireless infrastructure : wide-scan focal plane arrays with broadband optical beamforming. In: IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine. 2019 ; Vol. 61, Nr. 2. blz. 53-62

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