Title :
UWB radio-over-fiber and photonic sensing for cognitive optical access networks
Author :
Llorente, Roberto ; Morant, Maria ; Tokle, Torger ; Quinlan, Terry ; Thakur, Manoj ; Walker, Stuart
Author_Institution :
Nanophotonics Technol. Center, Univ. Politec. de Valencia, Valencia, Spain
Abstract :
The feasibility of combined UWB sensing by a photonic-ADC and bidirectional UWB radio-over-fiber transmission in dispersion compensating fiber is demonstrated experimentally in this paper. This approach enables cognitive access optimizing the radio-over-fiber user capacity.
Keywords :
cognitive radio; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre networks; radio-over-fibre; subscriber loops; UWB radio-over-fiber; bidirectional ultrawideband radio-over-fiber transmission; cognitive optical access networks; dispersion compensating fiber; photonic ADC; photonic sensing; untrawideband sensing; Fiber lasers; High definition video; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber networks; Optical fiber sensors; Optical network units; Optical sensors; Photonics; Ultrafast optics;
Conference_Titel :
LEOS Annual Meeting Conference Proceedings, 2009. LEOS '09. IEEE
Conference_Location :
Belek-Antalya
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3680-4
Electronic_ISBN :
1092-8081
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.2009.5343360
