Enhanced-SNR Impulse Radio Transceiver based on Phasers
Optics
2014-02-20 v1
Abstract
The concept of SNR enhancement in impulse radio transceivers based on phasers of opposite chirping slopes is introduced. It is shown that signal to-noise radio (SNR) enhancements by factors M2 and M are achieved for burst noise and Gaussian noise, respectively, where M is the stretching factor of the phasers. An experimental demonstration is presented, using stripline cascaded C-section phasers, where SNR enhancements in agreement with theory are obtained. The proposed radio analog signal processing transceiver system is simple, low-cost and frequency scalable, and may therefore be suitable for broadband impulse radio ranging and communication applications.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1402.4528,
title = {Enhanced-SNR Impulse Radio Transceiver based on Phasers},
author = {Babak Nikfal and Qingfeng Zhang and Christophe Caloz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1402.4528},
year = {2014}
}