An apparatus and method of propagating wireless signals through an impairment medium using a penetrator device within a wireless communication network is discussed herein. The apparatus and method includes transmitting a first radio frequency (RF) signal from a first point within the wireless communication network and receiving the first RF signal at a first unit of the penetrator device. The method further includes converting, by the first unit of the penetrator device, the RF signal into an optical signal and transmitting the optical signal from the first unit of the penetrator device to a second unit of the penetrator device through the impairment medium. The method also includes converting, by the second unit of the penetrator device, the optical signal into a second RF signal and transmitting, by the second unit of the penetrator device, the second RF signal to a second point within the wireless communication network.

A millimeter-wave communication device includes a coupler, Radio-Frequency (RF) circuitry and a composite right/left-handed metamaterial assembly. The coupler is configured to connect to a waveguide, the waveguide being transmissive at millimeter-wave frequencies and having a given dispersion characteristic over a predefined band of the millimeter-wave frequencies. The RF circuitry is configured to transmit a millimeter-wave signal into the waveguide via the coupler, or to receive a millimeter-wave signal from the waveguide via the coupler, and to process the millimeter-wave signal. The composite right/left-handed metamaterial assembly is formed to apply to the millimeter-wave signal, or to an Intermediate-Frequency (IF) signal corresponding to the millimeter-wave signal, a dispersion compensation that compensates for at least part of the dispersion characteristic of the waveguide over the predefined band.

Embodiments herein may relate to an interconnect that includes a transceiver, where the transceiver is configured to receive a data stream, convert the data stream to a quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) mapping/shaping signal, where the QAM mapping/shaping signal is a frequency component of the data stream, convert the QAM mapping/shaping signal to a Hilbert transform signal, where the Hilbert transform signal includes a reverse order of an in-phase component of the QAM mapping/shaping signal and a reverse order of a quadrature component of the QAM mapping/shaping signal, convert the Hilbert transform signal to a QAM mapping/shaping signal, where the QAM mapping/shaping signal is a single sideband (SSB) time domain mm wave signal, where the SSB time domain mm wave signal is the Hilbert transform signal converted to a time domain signal, and communicate the SSB time domain mm wave signal over a waveguide using a waveguide interconnect.

Embodiments herein may relate to an interconnect that includes a transceiver, where the transceiver is configured to receive a data stream, convert the data stream to a quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) mapping/shaping signal, where the QAM mapping/shaping signal is a frequency component of the data stream, convert the QAM mapping/shaping signal to a Hilbert transform signal, where the Hilbert transform signal includes a reverse order of an in-phase component of the QAM mapping/shaping signal and a reverse order of a quadrature component of the QAM mapping/shaping signal, convert the Hilbert transform signal to a QAM mapping/shaping signal, where the QAM mapping/shaping signal is a single sideband (SSB) time domain mm wave signal, where the SSB time domain mm wave signal is the Hilbert transform signal converted to a time domain signal, and communicate the SSB time domain mm wave signal over a waveguide using a waveguide interconnect.

Microwave photonic vector network analyzer and a method for measuring scattering parameters of a microwave device are provided. The analyzer comprises a microwave source, wherein a signal loading module, an optical sampling module and a signal processing module are sequentially arranged along a signal output direction of the microwave source; an output end of the signal processing module is respectively connected with a control end of the microwave source and a control end of the optical sampling module; and two test ports of the signal loading module are connected with both ends of a device to be tested. The invention realizes direct sampling and frequency conversion for microwave signals, abandons a superheterodyne structure and/or direct frequency conversion structure in the traditional network analyzer, simplifies the structure of the system while improving the measurement frequency range and avoiding image interference, and reduces system complexity, cost and power consumption.

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a system having a first plurality of transmitters for launching according to a signal, first electromagnetic waves, and a second plurality of transmitters for launching, according to the signal, second electromagnetic waves. The first electromagnetic waves and the second electromagnetic waves combine at an interface of a transmission medium to induce a propagation of a third electromagnetic wave, the third electromagnetic wave having a non-fundamental wave mode and a non-optical operating frequency, and wherein the second plurality of transmitters are spaced apart from the first plurality of transmitters in a direction of propagation of the third electromagnetic wave. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a system having a first plurality of transmitters for launching according to a signal, first electromagnetic waves, and a second plurality of transmitters for launching, according to the signal, second electromagnetic waves. The first electromagnetic waves and the second electromagnetic waves combine at an interface of a transmission medium to induce a propagation of a third electromagnetic wave, the third electromagnetic wave having a non-fundamental wave mode and a non-optical operating frequency, and wherein the second plurality of transmitters are spaced apart from the first plurality of transmitters in a direction of propagation of the third electromagnetic wave. Other embodiments are disclosed.

A physical area network described herein enables significantly improved health monitoring and treatment by utilizing internal (in-body) mechanisms and information and external mechanisms and information.

A physical area network described herein enables significantly improved health monitoring and treatment by utilizing internal (in-body) mechanisms and information and external mechanisms and information.

A physical area network described herein enables significantly improved health monitoring and treatment by utilizing internal (in-body) mechanisms and information and external mechanisms and information.