1W GaAs MMIC Amplifier for 18 GHz Cellular Backhaul Applications

摘要

For manufacturers of point-to-point microwave and millimeter-wave radios and their components, the cellular backhaul market promises to grow dramatically in the next few years. The reason for that growth is simple: Along with lightwave systems, which are not available in a sizeable number of cell site locations, only point-to-point microwave offers the bandwidth to handle the massive volumes of data that LTE and WiMAX deployments will produce. Radio-based backhaul is also cost-effective both to deploy and operate, and has demonstrated its reliability in this as well as many other applications throughout the world. TriQuint will continue to introduce MMICs to serve this application for all allocated bands from 6 to 38 GHz, providing the linearity and other characteristics required to satisfy the demands of higher-order modulation schemes that point-to-point systems employ.