A 15-Gb/s wireless on-off keying link

Abstract

Bit-error rate measurements for ON-OFF keying modulation at multigigabit per second rates over a V-band wireless link are presented. Serial data-rates from 2.5 to 20 Gb/s were studied for a 231-1 bit random sequence. Error-free data transfer over a 0.3-m link was achieved at up to 10 Gb/s. Acceptable bit-error rates, <10-5 and 10-3, were measured at up to 1.5 m for 10- and 15-Gb/s data-rate, respectively. The performance was achieved using a transmitter that consists of an integrated wavelet generator, whereas the receiver was built from off-the-shelf waveguide components. The results demonstrate that very high data-rates may be achieved using binary modulation and short symbols generated in an efficient V-band transmitter. The system is benchmarked against state-of-the-art transceiver systems with multigigabit per second data-rates.