APIC Corp. designs and manufactures the highest performing fiber optic links for high-fidelity analog signal transmission. One of several key enabling technologies is a stable laser with ultra low relative intensity noise (RIN) over the entire RF bandwidth. Ultra low RIN lasers are critical to achieving noise figures (NF), below 5 dB; large dynamic range;…
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MicroATx 20 GHz transmitter (gold box) and 20 GHz photodiode (small device on green circuit card) undergoing link testing in the Aselsan laboratory. 9 October 2019 – Aselsan AS, a Turkish corporation that produces tactical military radios and defense electronic systems for the Turkish Armed Forces, performed a series of tests on APIC’s MicroATx-based 20…
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24 May 2019 – APIC Corp. completes the design, asembly and test of a custom designed set of RF over Fiber links for Scanmatic AS of Arendal, Norway. The links will be used to downlink celestial radio signals collected by an array of sophisticated antennas for radio astronomy. Link performance measurements are available for download…
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31 July 2018 – APIC has published the latest installment of a series of whitepapers developed to describe the vast application space for high fidelity RF and high modulation digital transmission over optical fiber. The latest paper, on Antenna Links, surveys the many possibilities of this technology for air, land, sea and space applications. –…
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Bob Walter Yi-Guang Zhao Koichi Sayano Abstract: APIC’s direct Modulated DFB laser provides exceptional performance for numerous applications such as high order modulation signal transmission (QAM) and high fidelity analog RF over fiber. Download the presentation by clicking here!
Anguel Nikolov Abstract Learn how APIC’s high performance opto-electronic devices enable high fidelity transmission of spread spectrum OFDM 64QAM signals directly through fiber. This quick presentation will show you how the current 5G systems work, and how APIC is able to cheaply, efficiently, and with better overall performance replace them with 5G RFoF systems. Download the…
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Abstract Optical fiber provides a high bandwidth, low loss link solution for long cable runs connecting antennas and RF signal sources with receivers. Long electrical cable runs result in significant attenuation in the higher frequency (Ku and certainly in Ka) bands, as opposed to virtually no transmission loss with optical fiber. Other advantages are smaller…
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Anguel Nikolov, nikolov@apichip.com Apic Corporation, 5800 Uplander Way, Culver City, CA 90230-6608, USA Abstract: Using a highly linear fiber optic transceiver with IIP3 > 35 dBm, operating at noise level of -160dB/Hz, we demonstrate 71 km RF over Fiber LTE-Ultra transmission links with five 20 MHz intra-band aggregated carriers for a total of 100 MHz…
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Today, APIC would like to take some time to help you keep up-to-date on the latest happenings in the world of RF over Fiber. Please take a look at our short white-paper, comparing RF over Fiber to COAX and check out the performance of some of the amazing products APIC is producing! Download the Whitepaper!
We have designed and fabricated 1550nm DFB semiconductor lasers with output power
200 mW, SMSR > 60dB and the relative intensity noise < -165 dB/Hz in 0.5 to 18 GHz frequency
range.
Advanced Photonic Integrated Circuits (APIC) Corporation is a pioneering photonics business founded in 1999 and headquartered in Culver City, CA (minutes from LAX). Over 25 years of experience in developing advanced devices for the US military. APIC’s capabilities include:
5800 Uplander Way, Suite 200
Culver City, California 90230
