Transmission of Microwave Signals beyond the Modal Bandwidth of Multimode Fiber Links

Author

Larrode, M. Garcia ; Koonen, A.M.J. ; Olmos, JJ Vegas

Author_Institution

COBRA Res. Inst., Eindhoven Univ. of Technol.

fYear

2006

fDate

Oct. 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Employing the optical frequency multiplication method, we present an experimental performance analysis of the generation of microwave carriers up to 40 GHz and their transmission over a 4.4 km multimode fiber link. Also, 16 QAM and 64 QAM radio signals up to 20MS/s symbol rate are recovered successfully in the 24-30 GHz band after 4.4 km multimode fiber transmission, complying with the transmitter constellation error requirements of wireless standard IEEE 802.11a

Keywords

IEEE standards; microwave generation; microwave photonics; optical harmonic generation; radio access networks; radio-over-fibre; 24 to 30 GHz; microwave carrier generation; microwave signal transmission; multimode fiber link; optical fiber communication; optical frequency multiplication; radio-over-fiber; transmitter constellation error; wireless access network; wireless standard IEEE 802.11a; Bandwidth; Frequency modulation; Microwave generation; Microwave theory and techniques; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber networks; Optical filters; Optical interferometry; Passband; RF signals; Optical fiber communication; multimode fiber; radio-over-fiber; wireless access networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Photonics, 2006. MWP '06. International Topical Meeting on

Conference_Location

Grenoble

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0203-4

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0204-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWP.2006.346557

Filename

4153794