Title :
Optoelectronic components for cellular communications
Author_Institution :
AT&T Bell Labs., Murray Hill, NJ, USA
Abstract :
Summary form only given. Considerable effort has gone into the development of new optoelectronic devices which allow lightwave transmission systems to support data and video in mixed signal formats. Work in our group has focussed on a variety of technical problems, such as application specific integrated circuits, lasers, and a dual stage optical amplifier for use in these systems. Our most recent work has lead to a variety of robust circuit and device designs which allow combined analog, digital, and spread spectrum data formats to be employed. We will describe work in progress which addresses mixed analog and digital signal transmission. Our current results demonstrate multi-channel video and data transmission in an amplified fiber span with efficient conversion of the microwave channels into the air interface
Keywords :
application specific integrated circuits; digital signals; integrated optoelectronics; optical fibre communication; optoelectronic devices; spread spectrum communication; television networks; air interface; amplified fiber span; analog data formats; application specific integrated circuits; cellular communications; data; digital data formats; dual stage optical amplifier; lasers; lightwave transmission systems; microwave channels; mixed analog/digital signal transmission; mixed signal formats; multi-channel data transmission; multi-channel video transmission; optoelectronic components; optoelectronic devices; spread spectrum data formats; technical problems; video; Application specific integrated circuits; Data communication; Integrated optics; Optical amplifiers; Optical fiber devices; Optoelectronic devices; Robustness; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Spread spectrum communication; Stimulated emission;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting, 1993. LEOS '93 Conference Proceedings. IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-1263-5
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.1993.379066