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An experimental MM-wave high-speed path-length modulator

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In this paper, a PIN diode modulator with approximately 1.2dB insertion loss at 56.4 GHz and 0.7 ns switching time was described for high-speed binary phase shift modulation of a millimeter wave carrier.
Abstract
High-speed binary phase-shift modulation of a millimeter wave carrier can be obtained by path-length switching. A PIN diode modulator with approximately 1.2-dB insertion loss at 56.4 GHz and 0.7 ns switching time will be described.

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Integrated Balanced BPSK and QPSK Modulators for the Ka-Band

TL;DR: In this article, a balanced biphase-shift-keying (BPSK) and quadri-phase-shiftkeying modulator for the 27 GHz band is presented.
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Performance Analysis of Serial and Parallel Six-Port Modulators

TL;DR: In this article, the authors derived the transfer functions for two types of six-port quadrature phase-shift keying (QPSK) modulators and investigated their performances in terms of carrier leakage, Gray mapping, and conversion efficiencies.
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A Circuit Design for mm-Wave IMPATT Oscillators

N.D. Kenyon
TL;DR: In this paper, a new coax-waveguide configuration has been developed for the 3-7 mm band, and it has been adopted for the power source of a path-length modulation transmitter.
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A Quadriphase Fin-Line Modulator

TL;DR: In this article, a hybrid-coupled quadri-phase rnodulator with an insertion loss of 17 dB was described, which operates over a 15 percent frequency band around 15 GHz.
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High Data-Rate Solid-State Millimeter-Wave Transmitter Module

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe a solid-state millimeter-wave transmitter module consisting of an IMPATT oscillator, p-i-n quadri-phase modulator, and a three-stage IMPATT amplifier.
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TL;DR: In this article, an iterative circuit, diode, transmission phase shifter is discussed, having a canonic form that consists, of a length of transmission line symmetrically loaded at its ends by small susceptances whose values are diode controllable.
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A solid-state regenerative repeater for guided millimeter-wave communication systems

TL;DR: In this article, a 306 Mb/s, all solid-state repeater which has been built using a 1.3 GHz IF and a form of differentially-coherent phase modulation is described.
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A 50-GHz silicon IMPATT diode oscillator and amplifier

TL;DR: In this paper, a silicon impact avalanche transit-time diode oscillator and an amplifier were operated at 50 GHz with an overall efficiency of 2 percent, achieving phase-locking with a maximum normalized gain-bandwidth product of 0.1.
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FM modulation of mm-wave IMPATT oscillators with PCM baseband pulses

TL;DR: In this article, the modulation sensitivity, linearity, and FM noise performance of a mm IMPATT oscillator is described, and it is shown that when the oscillator was FM modulated with short rise time pulses, the detected FM pulses show almost no distortion compared to the original modulating baseband pulses.