• DocumentCode
    2015098
  • Title

    Novel SOA-based switch for multiple radio-over-fiber service applications

  • Author

    Qian, Xin ; Lin, Tao ; Penty, Richard V. ; White, Ian H.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Eng., Cambridge Univ., UK
  • fYear
    2006
  • fDate
    5-10 March 2006
  • Abstract
    An all-optical 3×3 SOA-based switch is demonstrated for routing radio-over-fiber signals. It is demonstrated that different RF signals, such as terrestrial digital TV and wireless LAN, can be routed simultaneously with a switching guard-band of only 500 ns.
  • Keywords
    optical communication equipment; radio-over-fibre; semiconductor optical amplifiers; telecommunication network routing; telecommunication switching; SOA-based switch; multiple radio-over-fiber service applications; routing radio-over-fiber signals; Communication switching; Digital TV; Optical switches; Power semiconductor switches; Radar antennas; Radio frequency; Routing; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Transmitting antennas; Wireless LAN;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2006 and the 2006 National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference. OFC 2006
  • Print_ISBN
    1-55752-803-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/OFC.2006.215805
  • Filename
    1636836