arQana’s Senior MMIC Designer Publishes Paper on Polymer Microwave Fibers

Senior MMIC Designer, Maxime De Wit, of arQana Technologies BV in Belgium, along with his co-authors published their paper on Polymer Microwave Fibers (PMF) in the January 2020 issue of IEEE – Microwave Magazine.

“I’m happy to finalize my PhD with this summarizing Microwave Magazine publication on PMF and would like to thank all my former colleagues (Bart Philippe, Simon Ooms, Yang Zhang, and my supervisor prof. Patrick Reynaert) for their contributions over the last few years, and for this paper”. ~ Maxime De Wit, Senior MMIC Designer, arQana Technologies BV

The demand for data communication capacity keeps increasing. Applications ranging from wireless and hand-held mobile electronics to big data centers and backbone infrastructure are driving the need. With 5G technology being deployed, the common trend for high-speed wireless communication is to shift the operating frequency toward the millimeter-wave (mm-wave) spectrum (30-300 GHz) and exploit the highly available bandwidth. This shift is driven by the continuous improvement of bulk CMOS and packaging technologies that enable the full integration of mm-wave radios. Copper wireline technology also continues the trend toward multilevel and multitone modulation for high-speed, short-distance communication links. Copper cables, however, are often complex, expensive, and prone to electromagnetic interference (EMI). Moreover, the required equalization techniques are power hungry. Optical communication benefits from low-loss glass optical fibers (GOFs) with enormous bandwidths, enabling trans-Atlantic communication. This technology, however, requires micrometer alignment precision and costly optical-electrical conversion.

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