Impact of interferometric noise on the remote delivery of optically generated millimeter-wave signals

Author

Moura, Louis ; Darby, Matthew ; Lane, Phil M. ; O´Reilly, John J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Comput. Sci., Algarve Univ., Faro, Portugal

Volume

45

Issue

8

fYear

1997

fDate

8/1/1997 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1398

Lastpage

1402

Abstract

In this paper, we report for the first time results relating to reflections/multipath induced interferometric noise in millimeter-wave fiber-radio systems for the broadcast of very narrow linewidth wave signals. We use a rigorous formulation based on the modified Chernoff bound which provides an accurate upper bound on the bit-error rate (BER) and power penalty (PP). Simulated results show good agreement with the analytical findings. We conclude that interferometric noise (IN) can be a significant impairment in systems of this type

Keywords

digital radio; error statistics; optical fibre communication; optical fibres; optical noise; BER; EHF; MM-wave fiber-radio systems; bit-error rate; interferometric noise; millimeter-wave signals; modified Chernoff bound; optically generated MM-wave signals; power penalty; reflections; remote delivery; very narrow linewidth wave signals; Millimeter wave communication; Millimeter wave technology; Noise generators; Optical crosstalk; Optical filters; Optical interferometry; Optical mixing; Optical noise; Optical receivers; Signal generators;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Microwave Theory and Techniques, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9480

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/22.618442

Filename

618442