Chinese Journal of Lasers, Volume. 46, Issue 6, 0614035(2019)

Design and Test of Monolithically Integrated 430 GHz Frequency Tripler

Dabao Yang1, Dong Xing1,2, Shixiong Liang1,2、**, Lisen Zhang1,2, Peng Xu1, and Zhihong Feng1
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  • 1 The 13th Research Institute of China Electronics Technology Group Corporation,Shijiazhuang, Hebei 0 50051, China
  • 2 National Key Laboratory of Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), Shijiazhuang, Hebei 0 50051, China
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    A 430 GHz tripler circuit in the terahertz range, which consists of all parts of a tripler, has been designed and fabricated on a 12 μm thick GaAs film substrate. A pair of two matched anti-parallel Schottky diodes without application of direct current bias is used to realize series balanced tripler structure. One distinct advantage of the balanced configuration is that it generates only odd harmonics, which simplifies the tripler analysis and optimization. Harmonic nonlinear simulations and three-dimensional electromagnetic simulations are combined to simulate radio-frequency performance of the entire tripler circuit accurately. The monolithically integrated 430 GHz tripler circuit is mounted in a split waveguide block for test. It has produced a peak output power of 215.7 μW with 4.3% efficiency at 430 GHz.

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    Dabao Yang, Dong Xing, Shixiong Liang, Lisen Zhang, Peng Xu, Zhihong Feng. Design and Test of Monolithically Integrated 430 GHz Frequency Tripler[J]. Chinese Journal of Lasers, 2019, 46(6): 0614035

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    Paper Information

    Category: terahertz technology

    Received: Jan. 24, 2019

    Accepted: May. 6, 2019

    Published Online: Jun. 14, 2019

    The Author Email: Shixiong Liang (wialliam@163.com)

    DOI:10.3788/CJL201946.0614035

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