Simultaneous 60-GHz RoF Transmission of Lightwaves Emitted by ECL, DFB, and VCSEL

Author

Lebedev, Anton ; Xiaodan Pang ; Olmos, J. J. Vegas ; Forchhammer, Soren ; Monroy, I.T.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Photonics Eng., Tech. Univ. of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark

Volume

26

Issue

7

fYear

2014

fDate

41730

Firstpage

733

Lastpage

736

Abstract

Simultaneous 60-GHz radio over fiber upconversion and fiber transmission of lightwaves produced by an external cavity laser, a distributed feedback laser, and a C-band vertical cavity surface emitting laser are demonstrated. The 1.25-Gb/s data are transmitted concurrently on each of the lightwaves attaining a bit error rate performance <10^-9 level. Carrier suppression of 20 dB is achieved for all three lightwaves placed in a wide wavelength range. The 10^-9 receiver sensitivity level for detection of three lightwaves falls in a <3-dB region. Reported close performance of the investigated techniques enables diversification of options for lightwave generation in millimeter-wave fiber-wireless networks.

Keywords

distributed feedback lasers; error statistics; laser cavity resonators; microwave photonics; optical receivers; radio-over-fibre; surface emitting lasers; C-band vertical cavity surface emitting laser; DFB; ECL; RoF transmission; VCSEL; bit error rate; bit rate 1.25 Gbit/s; carrier suppression; distributed feedback laser; external cavity laser; fiber transmission; frequency 60 GHz; lightwaves; millimeter wave fiber-wireless networks; radio over fiber upconversion; receiver sensitivity; Optical attenuators; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber networks; Optical fibers; Radio frequency; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers; Millimeter wave communication; optical fiber communication;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2014.2305694

Filename

6737239