Transmission performance of 60 GHz signals generated by OSSB upconversion

Author

Laurêncio, P. ; Fortes, I. ; Guerreiro, M. ; Medeiros, M.C.R.

Author_Institution

CEOT-Center of Electron. Optoelectron. & Telecommun., Univ. of Algarve, Faro, Portugal

fYear

2011

fDate

27-29 April 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Optical millimetter-wave generation using up-conversion is considered a cost-effective solution for Radio over Fiber (RoF) systems. In this paper we focus on frequency tripling and frequency quintupling generation using modulation of an optical carrier by means of a dual parallel Mach-Zehnder modulator using Optical Single Side Band (OSSB) modulation. Our results shows that this approaches is practically feasible and provides robustness against fiber dispersion when an unmodulated RF carrier is considered. However, when the RF carrier is modulated with data additional effects such as the data dispersion need to be considered.

Keywords

optical modulation; radio-over-fibre; RoF systems; SB upconversion; dual parallel Mach-Zehnder modulator; frequency 60 GHz; frequency quintupling generation; frequency tripling; optical millimetter-wave generation; optical single side band modulation; radio over fiber systems; transmission performance; unmodulated RF carrier; Harmonic analysis; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fibers; Optical harmonic generation; Optical modulation; frequency upconversion; optical communication systems; optical milimetter-wave generation; radio over fiber;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

EUROCON - International Conference on Computer as a Tool (EUROCON), 2011 IEEE

Conference_Location

Lisbon

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7486-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EUROCON.2011.5929304

Filename

5929304