Simultaneous generation of WDM PON and RoF signals using a hybrid mode-locked laser

Author

Aldaya, Ivan ; Campuzano, G. ; Gosset, C. ; Castanon, Gerardo

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Tecnol. de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico

fYear

2014

fDate

6-10 July 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

We present a novel cost-efficient architecture based on a hybrid mode locked laser capable to simultaneously generate wavelength division multipliexed (WDM) passive optical network (PON) and radio over fiber (RoF) signals for 60 GHz applications. The proposed approach is compatible with the ITU frequency grid and does not require high bandwidth Mach-Zehnder modulators. Simulation results reveal the potentiality of this architecture for 10 Gbps PON signals and 5 Gbps RoF signals up to 30 km employing orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) modulation format with a bit error rate below 10^-3.

Keywords

OFDM modulation; microwave photonics; passive optical networks; radio-over-fibre; wavelength division multiplexing; ITU frequency grid; RoF signals; WDM PON; bit error rate; frequency 60 GHz; hybrid mode-locked laser; orthogonal frequency division multiplexing modulation format; radio over fiber; wavelength division multipliexed passive optical network; Frequency modulation; Laser mode locking; Noise; OFDM; Optical modulation; Passive optical networks; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2014 16th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Graz

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2014.6876617

Filename

6876617