An NRD guide transmitter and a receiver were developed for a wireless multi-channel TV-signal distribution system at 60 GHz. The main emphasis was placed on a band-widening technique of the NRD guide beam-lead diode mount based on an electromagnetic field simulator, where each dimension of the beam lead diode mount was optimized. The agreement between the simulation and measurement is quite satisfactory. The up-converter fabricated by assembling a band-pass filter and a Schottky barrier diode mount has a good linearity as well as a flat output power of 2 dBm on the average over a bandwidth of at least 2 GHz. Moreover, the down-converter has a flat conversion loss performance of less than 7 dB in the same bandwidth. An NRD guide transmitter and a receiver characterized by small size and high performance were fabricated and successfully employed for the wireless distribution of TV signals for more than 100 channels.

The design and performance of a millimeter-wave video transmission system using 60-GHz band for indoor broadcasting-satellite (BS) signals transmission is presented. This system can transmit multiple video signals such as broadcasting signals and user-oriented signals to a television set indoors. To minimize the local oscillator's frequency offset and phase-noise effects, the system uses a remote-heterodyne scheme. Based on the concept, the system is developed to meet required carrier-to-noise-power-ratio (CNR) and 3rd-order intermodulation (IM). The BS transmission was experimentally done by using the transmitter and receiver setup. The results are very promising and show the feasibility of the system.