Up-Conversion of IQ Modulated Subcarriers with Dispersive Fiber for 60 GHz Radio-Over-Fiber Networks

Author

Le Guennec, Yannis ; Maury, Ghislaine ; Cabon, Beatrice ; Yao, Jianping

Author_Institution

Inst. of Microelectron., Electromagnetism & Photonics, UMR CNRS, Grenoble

fYear

2006

fDate

Oct. 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

An optical microwave mixing technique based on optical phase modulation and fiber chromatic dispersion is investigated for up-conversion of IQ modulated microwave subcarriers. Experiments with analog signals have validated up-conversion theory. Error Vector Magnitude measurements have shown low penalty induced by optical microwave up-conversion process on QAM signals within the 10 GHz band. For future radio-over-fiber networks, optical microwave up-conversion in the 60 GHz band is investigated. Application of this technique for high symbol rate IQ modulations for future 60 GHz radio-over-fiber networks is proposed

Keywords

microwave photonics; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre networks; optical frequency conversion; optical modulation; phase modulation; quadrature amplitude modulation; radio-over-fibre; 60 GHz; IQ-modulated subcarriers; QAM signals; analog signals; dispersive fiber; fiber chromatic dispersion; optical microwave mixing technique; optical microwave up-conversion process; optical phase modulation; radio-over-fiber networks; Chromatic dispersion; Microwave measurements; Microwave theory and techniques; Optical fiber networks; Optical fiber theory; Optical mixing; Optical modulation; Phase modulation; Quadrature amplitude modulation; Signal processing; 60 GHz; IQ modulation; Radio-over-fiber; fiber chromatic dispersion; phase modulator;

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.2006.346521

Filename

4153823