An active uplink photonic antenna

Author

Nanyan, N.F. ; Hashim, Siti Zaiton Mohd ; Ngah, R. ; Rahayu, Y. ; Prakoso, T.

Author_Institution

Wireless Commun. Centre, Univ. Teknol. Malaysia, Skudai, Malaysia

fYear

2010

fDate

9-11 Nov. 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

This paper presents a wideband photonic antenna consisting the laser diode, matching circuit, RF amplifier and microstrip patch antenna are fabricated and connected together to perform in uplink system. Laser driver is used to supply the dc biasing for the laser. Lastly, the LD-matching circuit, RF amplifier and antenna were arrange together and connected to perform the wireless uplink system. The simulated and measured results are presented and discussed. These results show useful photonic antenna design that achieves relatively wide bandwidth and has potential to be applied in RoF technology.

Keywords

microstrip antennas; radio-over-fibre; semiconductor lasers; LD-matching circuit; RF amplifier; RoF technology; active uplink photonic antenna; dc biasing; laser diode; microstrip patch antenna; photonic antenna design; wideband photonic antenna; wireless uplink system; Antenna measurements; Diode lasers; Frequency measurement; Microstrip; Microstrip antennas; Photonics; RoF; laserdiode; photonic antenna; uplink;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Applied Electromagnetics (APACE), 2010 IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on

Conference_Location

Port Dickson

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8565-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APACE.2010.5719759

Filename

5719759