Fabrication and laboratory testing of a high-temperature superconducting subsystem for DSC1800 mobile communications

Abstract

In this paper, we report on the design, fabrication and testing of a 20-pole high-temperature superconducting (HTS) filter for DSC1800 mobile communications with the pass band from 1710 to 1785 MHz. The test results show that the insertion loss of the pass band is less than 0.3 dB, the out-of-band rejection is better than 65 dB, and the steepness of the band edges is greater than 14 dB MHz −1 . We also tested an HTS subsystem, which consists of the HTS filter, a low-noise amplifier (LNA) with 21 dB gain and a Stirling Cooler, and a traditional subsystem, which consists of a traditional filter and a LNA with 23 dB gain. The results show that the HTS subsystem is much better than the conventional subsystem.

Field trial of an HTS filter system on a CDMA base station

“…The excellent performance of HTSFS can greatly improve the receiving sensitivity and selectivity of the BTS, leading to an increase in the capacity, coverage and ability of anti-interference of the mobile communication network. So the HTSFS has become a competitive resolution for wireless communication companies [2][3][4][5][6] .…”