Towards Super-Heterodyne Thz Links Pumped By Photonic Local Oscillators

We present in this paper wireless data transmission experiments in a superheterodyne wireless system based on millimeterwave monolithic integrated circuits at a center frequency of 300 GHz, driven by photonic local oscillator (LO). Superheterodyne operation is attractive for compliance with the recent lEEE802.15.3d frequency standard. The super-heterodyne transmission with two channels is realized using an AWG and a photonic-based LO. The paper presents initial transmission experiments realized using two channels in the 300 GHz band.