Energy-Autonomous Picocell Remote Antenna Unit for Radio-Over-Fiber System Using the Multiservices Concept

Author

Lethien, Christophe ; Wake, David ; Verbeke, Bernard ; Vilcot, Jean-Pierre ; Loyez, Christophe ; Zegaoui, Malek ; Gomes, Nathan ; Rolland, Nathalie ; Rolland, Paul-Alain

Author_Institution

History of Sci. Dept., Inst. d´´Electron. de Microelectron. et de Nanotechnol. (IEMN)-IRCICA, Villeneuve-d´´Ascq, France

Volume

24

Issue

8

fYear

2012

fDate

4/15/2012 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

649

Lastpage

651

Abstract

The study reported in this letter deals with the extension of the multiservices concept to radio-over-fiber systems with energy-autonomous picocell remote antenna units. Continuous-power, radio-frequency, and digital signals have been combined in a single multimode fiber for the first time. The results clearly demonstrate no impairment of the optically powered remote antenna unit compared to an electrically powered version. The proposed system complies with the classical baseband Ethernet high-data-rate network (10 GbE bit error rate 10^-12). The measured error vector magnitude for the radio-frequency (IEEE802.11g) signal transmission through the designed system stays around 2%, including both the optical transmission over 100-m OM3 multimode fiber and a wireless coverage of 5 m.

Keywords

error statistics; microwave antennas; microwave photonics; picocellular radio; radio-over-fibre; telecommunication services; wireless LAN; Ethernet; IEEE802.11g; bit error rate; multiservices; picocell remote antenna unit; radio-over-fiber system; single multimode fiber; Optical amplifiers; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber networks; 10 GbE; energy-autonomous access point; multimode fiber; radio-over-fiber (ROF); wavelength multiplexing; zero-power devices;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2012.2185224

Filename

6135772