This paper presents a single-chip RF tuner/OFDM demodulator for a mobile digital TV application called “1-segment broadcasting.” To achieve required performances for the single-chip receiver, a tunable technique for a low-noise amplifier (LNA) and spurious suppression techniques are proposed in this paper. Firstly, to receive all channels from 470 MHz to 770 MHz and to relax distortion characteristics of following circuit blocks such as an RF variable-gain amplifier and a mixer, a tunable technique for the LNA is proposed. Then, to improve the sensitivity, spurious signal suppression techniques are also proposed. The single-chip receiver using the proposed techniques is fabricated in 90 nm CMOS technology and total die size is 3.26 mm 3.26 mm. Using the tunable LNA and suppressing undesired spurious signals, the sensitivities of less than -98.6 dBm are achieved for all the channels.

In optical coherent communications with homodyne detection system, it is one of the most essential problems to synchronize the phase of local oscillator with that of received signal on the receiver. In general, the phase-locking performance is limited by frequency fluctuation and quantum noise of light source. So far some optical phase-locked loops have been proposed in order to optimize phase-locking performance. Their main purpose is to minimize phase error variance of systems with frequency fluctuation and quantum noise transformed into the electric region. To improve the phase-locking performance under the same situations, this paper proposes a new optical phase-locked loop with received quantum state controller, called a Squeezed-PLL, which can reduce the impact of quantum noise in the optical region. This system can eliminate the effect of the vacuum noise due to the beam splitting. Finally, the general signal to noise ratio of data-branch is shown, and phase-locking performance of the Squeezed-PLL is verified by computer simulation.

The advantage of nonstandard quantum states such as two-photon coherent state (or squeezed states) and photon number state as transmitter state is strongly degraded by transmission loss in quantum communications. To cope with such a problem, a new application of these states is proposed, and it is shown that its system has infinite capacity.