Title :
Simplified Generation, Transport, and Data Recovery of Millimeter-Wave Signal in a Full-Duplex Bidirectional Fiber-Wireless System
Author :
Islam, A. H M Razibul ; Bakaul, Masuduzzaman ; Nirmalathas, Ampalavanapillai ; Town, Graham E.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Univ. of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Abstract :
A millimeter-wave (mm-wave) full-duplex bidirectional fiber-wireless (Fi-Wi) system employing a combination of uncorrelated optical heterodyning and radio frequency (RF) self-homodyning is proposed and demonstrated. The proposed system significantly simplifies the optical mm-wave generation, transport, and data recovery both in downlink and uplink directions. Experimental results confirm that such a bi-directional architecture can successfully avoid most of the high-speed electrooptic and RF devices from both the central station and base stations, and transforms the mm-wave Fi-Wi link to any conventional optical communication link in the access or metro domain.
Keywords :
microwave photonics; millimetre wave generation; optical fibre communication; optical links; signal processing; Fi-Wi system; RF devices; RF self-homodyning; base stations; bidirectional architecture; central station; data recovery; full-duplex bidirectional fiber-wireless system; high-speed electrooptic devices; millimeter-wave signal generation; mm-wave Fi-Wi link; optical communication link; optical mm-wave generation; radiofrequency self-homodyning; signal transport; uncorrelated optical heterodyning; High speed optical techniques; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber communication; Optical mixing; Radio frequency; Fiber-wireless (Fi-Wi); gigabit wireless access; microwave photonics; millimeter-wave (mm-wave) communications; optical heterodyning; optical wireless integration;
Journal_Title :
Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/LPT.2012.2205376
