Simulation of mm-wave over fiber systems employing up-conversion using external modulators

Author

Vargues, Hélio ; Avó, Ricardo ; Laurêncio, Paula ; Medeiros, Maria C R

Author_Institution

Center for Electron., Optoelectron. & Telecommun., Algarve Univ., Faro, Portugal

fYear

2009

fDate

June 28 2009-July 2 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Access infrastructure combining fiber optic and wireless technologies can provide the necessary broadband access required by convergence of wireless and wired networks. Optical millimetter-wave generation using up-conversion is considered as a cost-effective solution in radio over fiber systems. In this paper we discuss and compare the robustness against dispersion of three millimetter-wave generation techniques based on upconversion.

Keywords

microwave photonics; optical fibre dispersion; optical modulation; radio-over-fibre; wavelength division multiplexing; WDM; external modulators; fiber dispersion; mm-wave over fiber systems; optical carrier suppression; optical double side-band; optical millimetter-wave generation; optical single side-band; up-conversion; wavelength division multiplexing; Amplitude modulation; Fiber nonlinear optics; High speed optical techniques; Nonlinear optics; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber networks; Optical modulation; Robustness; Signal generators; Wavelength division multiplexing; all-optical up-conversion; mm-wave networks; multi-gigabit indoor Wireless Personal Area Networking (WPAN); optical carrier suppression; optical double side-band; optical single side-band; radio over fiber;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks, 2009. ICTON '09. 11th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Azores

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4825-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4827-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2009.5185047

Filename

5185047