{"title":"High Speed Single Point THz Phase Measurement Based on Dual Channel Lock-in Technique","authors":"A. Gerling, M. Hofmann, C. Brenner","doi":"10.1109/IWMTS.2018.8454689","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IWMTS.2018.8454689","url":null,"abstract":"The generation of radiation in the range of hundreds of GHz with electronic systems is challenging. Using photonic systems makes it possible to generate and detect signals in the complete frequency range. To measure amplitude and phase with so-called time domain spectroscopy (TDS) systems usually requires the acquisition and Fourier analysis of complete pulse transients. Simplifying this process helps to design systems which allow for fast scanning in the THz range. We modified a commercial TDS system with a two-channel lock-in amplifier and a bandpass filter in the range of 800-900GHz to completely remove the post processing which is necessary to acquire phase and amplitude information. In this paper we present a system which reduces the acquired data to two output parameters for amplitude and phase which can be measured at the same time. This makes precise and fast measurements of phase objects at a target frequency possible. This is shown by acquiring a qualitative phase image of a technical sample.","PeriodicalId":267901,"journal":{"name":"2018 First International Workshop on Mobile Terahertz Systems (IWMTS)","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129733233","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Batra, M. Wiemeler, T. Kreul, D. Goehringer, T. Kaiser
{"title":"A Massive MIMO Signal Processing Architecture for GHz to THz Frequencies","authors":"A. Batra, M. Wiemeler, T. Kreul, D. Goehringer, T. Kaiser","doi":"10.1109/IWMTS.2018.8454699","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IWMTS.2018.8454699","url":null,"abstract":"State-of-the-art wireless technology is reaching its technical limits and future technologies such as millimeter wave (mmWave), massive MIMO and full duplex transmission included in upcoming 5G standards will be key in fulfilling demands for higher data rate and spectrum efficiency. Massive MIMO systems operating in the mmWave spectrum have many advantages in terms of e.g. beamforming and channel capacity, not only for communication systems but also for radar systems. Therefore, an experimental real time massive MIMO testbed utilizing sub-6GHz and the mmWave spectrum is to be constructed at Institute of Digital Signal Processing (DSV), University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany to investigate this technology in a practical manner for indoor radar system applications. The proposed testbed will initially be implemented for sub-6GHz frequencies with more than hundred antennas and later extended to the mmWave region. Obviously, the testbed design is very complex and a detailed design study is required before implementation. This paper summarizes findings of the design study. Firstly, a theoretical model of a signal processing architecture for a massive MIMO testbed is presented. This is followed by requirements and comparison of parameters processing power, bandwidth, data throughput etc. for sub-6GHz and mmWave spectrum. Also, mapping of algorithms on heterogeneous computational resources, such as FPGA, GPU and CPU is discussed. Based on the study, parameters for the proposed testbed are selected.","PeriodicalId":267901,"journal":{"name":"2018 First International Workshop on Mobile Terahertz Systems (IWMTS)","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124033744","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}