Hybrid Cable Television/Radio-Over-Fiber Transport System Based on Polarization Modulation Technique

Author

Peng, Peng-Chun ; Yen, Li-Hsing ; Lu, Hai-Han ; Huang, Ching-Hsiu

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electro-Opt. Eng., Nat. Taipei Univ. of Technol., Taipei, Taiwan

Volume

23

Issue

13

fYear

2011

fDate

7/1/2011 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

860

Lastpage

862

Abstract

A hybrid cable television/radio-over-fiber (ROF) transport system with direction modulation of cable television signals and the polarization modulation of ROF signals is proposed and experimentally demonstrated for the first time. When a multicarrier cable television signal in the optical amplitude domain and an ROF signal in the optical polarization domain are modulated, a single optical wavelength can serve these two signal applications simultaneously. This hybrid transport system not only satisfied the cable television requirements, but also satisfied the demand for high-quality ROF transmission over a 20-km single-mode fiber.

Keywords

cable television; optical communication equipment; optical fibre polarisation; optical information processing; optical modulation; radio-over-fibre; direction modulation; high-quality ROF transmission; hybrid cable television; multicarrier cable television signal; optical amplitude domain; optical polarization domain; polarization modulation; radio-over-fiber transport; single optical wavelength; single-mode fiber; size 20 km; Adaptive optics; Optical attenuators; Optical fibers; Optical modulation; Optical polarization; Cable television; hybrid transport system; radio over fiber (ROF);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2011.2141125

Filename

5746501