Phase-modulated on-off keying for millimeter wave spectrum control

A system, comprising:

• a transmitting apparatus comprising:
• a coding circuit for receiving binary digital data and generating an on-off keying (OOK) signal representing the binary digital data, the coding circuit also generating a phase modulation control signal for controlling a phase modulation of a millimeter wave carrier signal based on the on and off pattern of the OOK signal;
• a phase modulation circuit communicatively connected to the coding circuit for receiving the phase modulation control signal and the millimeter wave carrier signal, the phase modulation circuit applying the phase modulation to the millimeter wave carrier signal based on the phase modulation control signal to generate a phase-modulated carrier signal;
• a power amplifier communicatively connected to the coding circuit and the phase modulation circuit for receiving the OOK signal and the phase-modulated carrier signal, the power amplifier generating, based on the OOK signal and the phase-modulated carrier signal, an amplified phase-modulated carrier signal with OOK;
• and
• an interface to transmit the amplified phase-modulated carrier signal with OOK to a receiving apparatus via a millimeter wave communication link;
• a receiving apparatus to receive the amplified phase-modulated carrier signal with OOK, the receiving apparatus detect an envelope of amplified phase-modulated carrier signal with OOK to recover the binary digital data;
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• the millimeter wave communication link having a data transmission rate of multi-gigabits per second.

A method comprising:

• generating, at a transmitting apparatus, an on-off keying (OOK) signal representing binary digital data;
• generating, at the transmitting apparatus, a phase modulation control signal for controlling a phase modulation of a millimeter wave carrier signal based on the on and off pattern of the OOK signal;
• applying, at the transmitting apparatus, the phase modulation to the millimeter wave carrier signal based on the phase modulation control signal to generate a phase-modulated carrier signal;
• generating, at the transmitting apparatus, an amplified phase-modulated carrier signal with OOK based on the OOK signal and the phase-modulated carrier signal;
• and
• transmitting, at the transmitting apparatus, the amplified phase-modulated carrier signal with OOK to a receiving apparatus via a millimeter wave communication link.