Highly desirable features include consistent performance
over temperature and output load variations from the typical 50-Ohm system
impedance. The detector may be used to monitor transmitter operation, or to
enable closed-loop control of the transmitter’s output power to ensure
consistent operation.
Padraig O’Mathuna, VP/GM of GigOptix’s RF/MMIC product
line, said the EXE8602-DNT enables E-band radios output power monitoring and
control to best suit the conditions and the modulation scheme being utilized.
E-band offers a much less congested frequency spectrum
compared to existing legacy 6 to 38 GHz mobile backhaul bands along with 13 GHz
of allocated frequency spectrum that enables very economical multi-Gigabit per
second communication links.
EJL Wireless Research, in its most recent report,
forecast E-band point-to-point radio links as being one of the fastest growing
segments in the wireless mobile backhaul market with greater than 100 percent
CAGR to 2016.