{"title":"Bias-Free Operational UTC-PD Pair for Optoelectronic Mixing","authors":"JiHong Ye;YongQing Huang;MingXi Yang;Shuhu Tan;Xiaomin Ren","doi":"10.1109/TED.2025.3547701","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This study presents the first demonstration of a two-element uni-traveling carrier photodiodes (UTC-PDs) pair for optoelectronic mixing in wireless communication, utilizing bias-free operational UTC-PDs to effectively reduce system power consumption and complexity. One UTC-PD in the system converts the intermediate frequency (IF) signal into a bias modulation signal, which is then directed to a second UTC-PD that processes the local oscillation (LO) signal to achieve optoelectronic mixing. We achieved optoelectronic mixing with LO and IF signal frequencies of 20 and 2 GHz, respectively, resulting in a conversion loss (CL) of 21.9 dB at zero bias voltage.","PeriodicalId":13092,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices","volume":"72 5","pages":"2406-2410"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9000,"publicationDate":"2025-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices","FirstCategoryId":"5","ListUrlMain":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10930781/","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"ENGINEERING, ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This study presents the first demonstration of a two-element uni-traveling carrier photodiodes (UTC-PDs) pair for optoelectronic mixing in wireless communication, utilizing bias-free operational UTC-PDs to effectively reduce system power consumption and complexity. One UTC-PD in the system converts the intermediate frequency (IF) signal into a bias modulation signal, which is then directed to a second UTC-PD that processes the local oscillation (LO) signal to achieve optoelectronic mixing. We achieved optoelectronic mixing with LO and IF signal frequencies of 20 and 2 GHz, respectively, resulting in a conversion loss (CL) of 21.9 dB at zero bias voltage.
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IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices publishes original and significant contributions relating to the theory, modeling, design, performance and reliability of electron and ion integrated circuit devices and interconnects, involving insulators, metals, organic materials, micro-plasmas, semiconductors, quantum-effect structures, vacuum devices, and emerging materials with applications in bioelectronics, biomedical electronics, computation, communications, displays, microelectromechanics, imaging, micro-actuators, nanoelectronics, optoelectronics, photovoltaics, power ICs and micro-sensors. Tutorial and review papers on these subjects are also published and occasional special issues appear to present a collection of papers which treat particular areas in more depth and breadth.