Three-dimensional super-wideband micro-antenna for high-resolution millimeter-wave medical imaging.

This paper reports on a novel super-wideband micro-hemispherical antenna with application in millimeter-wave medical imaging. The antenna is composed of a hemispherical shell suspended above a substrate and can be fabricated using a fabrication technology originally developed for micron-scale electromechanical resonators. The antenna exhibits a wide fractional bandwidth of more than 80% (from 64 GHz to 150 GHz) and a high gain of 8.

Probability based modeling of cross phase modulation in 16-QAM dispersion compensated coherent systems.

A probability-based model is developed to describe cross phase modulation in multichannel multilevel amplitude/phase modulated coherent systems. Standard deviation of nonlinear phase-shift is evaluated in 16-QAM coherent systems accordingly and by numerical simulation for different values of chromatic dispersion and symbol rate. Furthermore, an error analysis is provided to evaluate the accuracy of the model which demonstrates maximum relative error of 12% in the field of interest.