Publications related to Carrier wave

A Low-Complexity LoRa Synchronization Algorithm Robust to Sampling Time Offsets

Orion Afisiadis, Mathieu Pierre Xhonneux

LoRaWAN is nowadays one of the most popular protocols for low-power Internet of Things communications. Although its physical layer, namely LoRa, has been thoroughly studied in the literature, aspects related to the synchronization of LoRa receivers have re ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

Millimeter-wave to near-terahertz sensors based on reversible insulator-to-metal phase transition in Vanadium dioxide

Fatemeh Qaderi Rahaqi

Millimeter-wave (mm-wave) and terahertz (THz) detection has opened a significant research direction in imaging, sensing, spectroscopy, and ultrafast wireless communication. The sensitivity of the phase transition to electromagnetic waves in Vanadium dioxid ...

EPFL2022

Development of Lamb wave resonators in thin film X-cut lithium niobate

Muhammad Faizan

Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) is among the most revolutionary technologies of 21st century, with the applications ranging from industrial systems to consumer electronics. Using MEMS in battery-powered wireless devices has long been seen as the evol ...

EPFL2021

Heteronuclear soliton molecules in optical microresonators

Tobias Kippenberg, Erwan Guillaume Albert Lucas, Wenle Weng, Tobias Herr

Optical soliton molecules are bound states of solitons that arise from the balance between attractive and repulsive effects. Having been observed in systems ranging from optical fibres to mode-locked lasers, they provide insights into the fundamental inter ...

Nature Research2020

Wide band-pass FSS with reduced periodicity for energy efficient windows at higher frequencies

Josef Andreas Schuler, Luc Burnier, Jérémy Jacques Antonin Fleury

A simulation model and an experimental characterization of energy saving glazing transparent to mobile communication frequency up to 40 GHz is presented. A previous study showed that laser structured energy efficient windows with a frequency selective surf ...

SPRINGER HEIDELBERG2020

Physical Layer Aspects of LoRa and Full-Duplex Wireless Transceivers

Orion Afisiadis

Wireless communications are currently faced with two main challenges. The first challenge stems from the enormous number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices that transmit very small amounts of data. The second challenge is the need for ever-increasing data ...

EPFL2020

Coded LoRa Frame Error Rate Analysis

Andreas Peter Burg, Alexios Konstantinos Balatsoukas Stimming, Orion Afisiadis

In this work, we study the coded frame error rate (FER) of LoRa under additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) and under carrier frequency offset (CFO). To this end, we use existing approximations for the bit error rate (BER) of the LoRa modulation under AWGN ...

IEEE2020

Monolithic piezoelectric control of soliton microcombs

Tobias Kippenberg, Rui Ning Wang, Junqiu Liu, Erwan Guillaume Albert Lucas, Wenle Weng, Arslan Sajid Raja, Jijun He, Miles Henry Anderson, Tianyi Liu

High-speed actuation of laser frequency(1)is critical in applications using lasers and frequency combs(2,3), and is a prerequisite for phase locking, frequency stabilization and stability transfer among optical carriers. For example, high-bandwidth feedbac ...

NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP2020

Improved off‐resonance phase behavior using a phase‐inverted adiabatic half‐passage pulse for 13 C MRS in humans at 7 T

Rolf Gruetter, Lijing Xin, Daniel Gallichan, Eulalia Serés Roig

In vivo (13) C MRS at high field benefits from an improved SNR and spectral resolution especially when using surface coils in combination with adiabatic pulses, such as the adiabatic half-passage (AHP) pulse for (13) C excitation. However, the excitation p ...

2019

Lora Digital Receiver Analysis And Implementation

Andreas Peter Burg, Orion Afisiadis, Reza Ghanaatian Jahromi, Matthieu Cotting

Low power wide area network technologies (LPWANs) are attracting attention because they fulfill the need for long range low power communication for the Internet of Things. LoRa is one of the proprietary LPWAN physical layer (PHY) technologies, which provid ...

IEEE2019

Molecular Profiling and Functional Analysis of Macrophage-Derived Tumor Extracellular Vesicles

Michele De Palma, Romain Hamelin, Bruno Torchia, Chiara Cianciaruso, Sina Nassiri, Tim Beltraminelli

Extracellular vesicles (EVs), including exosomes, modulate multiple aspects of cancer biology. Tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs) secrete EVs, but their molecular features and functions are poorly characterized. Here, we report methodology for the enrichm ...

2019

Reconfigurable optical generation of nine Nyquist WDM channels with sinc-shaped temporal pulse trains using a single microresonator-based Kerr frequency comb

Tobias Kippenberg, Maxim Karpov, Martin Hubert Peter Pfeiffer, Arne Kordts, Fatemeh Alishahi, Ahmad Fallahpour, Amirhossein Mohajerin Ariaei, Cong Liu

Sinc-shaped temporal pulse trains have a spectrally efficient, rectangular Nyquist spectrum. We demonstrate the simultaneous and reconfigurable optical generation of multiple Nyquist-shaped wavelength-division-multiplexed (WDM) channels having temporal sin ...

OPTICAL SOC AMER2019

Signal processing apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving coherent parallel optical signals

Tobias Kippenberg

A signal processing apparatus, being configured for transmitting and receiving coherent parallel optical signals, comprises a transmitter apparatus including a first single soliton micro-resonator device and a modulator device, wherein the first single sol ...

2018

Carrier Tracking using Extended Kalman Filters for GNSS Synthetic Aperture Processing with a Rotating Antenna

Pierre-André Farine, Joaquin Cabeza de Pablo, Cyril Botteron, Miguel Angel Ribot Sanfelix

A single GNSS antenna moving along a known trajectory can be used to synthesize a virtual array in order to apply spatial diversity techniques, e.g. beamforming. With these techniques, referred as synthetic aperture (SA) techniques, the receiver can mitiga ...

2017

An Approximate Zero IF FM-UWB Receiver for High Density Wireless Sensor Networks

Christian Enz, Vladimir Kopta

A low-power frequency modulated-ultra-wideband (FM-UWB) receiver for short-range communications, capable of simultaneously demodulating multiple FM-UWB signals located at the same frequency, is presented in this paper. The proposed receiver utilizes an "ap ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2017

FM-UWB: Towards a Robust, Low-Power Radio for Body Area Networks

Christian Enz, John Farserotu, Vladimir Kopta

The Frequency Modulated Ultra-Wideband (FM-UWB) is known as a low-power, low-complexity modulation scheme targeting low to moderate data rates in applications such as wireless body area networks. In this paper, a thorough review of all FM-UWB receivers and ...

2017

Optimization of the Data Rate of an OOK CMOS Medical Transmitter Based on LC Oscillators

Catherine Dehollain, Kerim Türe, Gürkan Yilmaz, Franco Maloberti

This paper presents techniques for increasing communication data rates for OOK modulated signals in the case the carrier frequency is generated by a cross-coupled pair LC oscillator. The proposed circuitry completely turns off the transmitter during the tr ...

Ieee2016

Computation in Multicast Networks: Function Alignment and Converse Theorems

Michael Christoph Gastpar, Naveen Goela

The classical problem in a network coding theory considers communication over multicast networks. Multiple transmitters send independent messages to multiple receivers that decode the same set of messages. In this paper, computation over multicast networks ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2016

Generalized radiation boundary conditions in gyrotron oscillator modeling

Stefano Alberti, Minh Quang Tran, Stephan Brunner, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Jérémy Genoud, Trach-Minh Tran

A numerical procedure to implement a frequency-independent generalized non-reflecting radiation boundary conditions, GNRBC, based on the Laplace Transform, is described in details and tested successfully on a simple 2 frequency test problem. In the case of ...

Springer2015

CPT Cesium-Cell Atomic Clock Operation With a 12-mW Frequency Synthesizer ASIC

Pierre-André Farine, Steve Tanner, Yazhou Zhao

In this paper, we present the design, fabrication, and electrical characterization of a low-power microwave source for interrogation of cesium atomic hyperfine transition frequency using the coherent population trapping (CPT) technique. The 4.6-GHz frequen ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2015