Terahertz wireless communication in a 560-GHz band using a Kerr micro-resonator soliton comb
Yu Tokizane, Shota Okada, Kenji Nishimoto, Yasuhiro Okamura, Hiroki Kishikawa, Takeo Minamikawa, Eiji Hase, Junichi Fujikata, Masanobu Haraguchi, Atsushi Kanno, Shintaro Hisatake, Naoya Kuse, Takeshi Yasui
Abstract
Terahertz (THz) waves have attracted attention as carrier waves for next-generation wireless communications (6 G). Electronic THz emitters are widely used in current mobile communications; however, they may face technical limitations in 6 G with upper-frequency limits. We demonstrate wireless communication in a 560-GHz band by using a photonic THz emitter based on photomixing of a 560-GHz-spacing soliton microcomb in a uni-travelling carrier photodiode together with a THz receiver of Schottky barrier diode. The on-off keying data transfer with 2-Gbit/s achieves a Q-factor of 3.4, thus, satisfying the limit of forward error correction.