High data rate millimeter wave radio

A high data rate phase shift keying millimeter wave radio transceiver comprising:

• A) a transmitter adapted to receive an binary input data stream at an input data rate in excess of 3.5 Gbps and to transmit at a transmit data rate in excess of 3.5 Gbps utilizing encoded three-bit data symbols on a carrier wave at a millimeter wave nominal carrier frequency in excess of 70 GHz with differential phase-shift keying utilizing eight separate phase shifts at a phase-shift rate in excess of 1.16 billion phase shifts per second, said transmitter comprising:
• 1) a frequency stabilized millimeter wave source operating at said millimeter wave frequency;
• 2) an encoder having an output clocked at said input data rate and adapted to generate sets of four phase shift modulator control bits, each set representing one of eight three-bit symbols;
• and
• 3) a modulator adapted to apply each set of four phase shift modulator control bits from the output of the encoder to the millimeter carrier wave in the form of a single phase shift for each three-bit symbol, each phase shift being one of eight recognizably distinct phase shifts;
• B) a receiver adapted to receive an incoming millimeter wave signal transmitted from a millimeter wave transmitter transmitting at frequencies in excess of 70 GHz and data rates in excess of 3.5 Gbps, said receiver comprising:
• 1) a millimeter wave amplifier adapted to amplify said incoming millimeter wave signal;
• 2) a demodulator adapted to demodulate the incoming millimeter wave signal to produce a binary output data stream at an output data rate in excess of 3.5 Gbps.