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Abstract

A 32-GHz (Ka-band) breadboard has been developed to demonstrate M-ary phase-shift keyed (PSK) and M-ary quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) Ka-band modulations using a ×3 8-GHz (X-band) architecture. This breadboard consists of an X-band vector modulator that is driven by a field programmable gate array. The signal is mixed with an upconverted 24-GHz signal to give the Ka-band modulated output. Data rates from 650 kb/s to 130 Mb/s have been demonstrated with quadrature PSK (QPSK) and 16-QAM modulation formats.

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Volume
42-166
Published
August 15, 2006
Pages
1–7
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260.1 KB