A simple and low cost remote-up conversion scheme using only one optical modulator and its application in a 60GHz radio-over-fiber system

Author

Cao, Z. ; Okonkwo, C.M. ; van den Boom, H.P.A. ; Yang, B. ; Zou, S. ; Huang, M. ; Tangdiongga, E. ; Koonen, A.M.J.

Author_Institution

COBRA Inst., Eindhoven Univ. of Technol., Eindhoven, Netherlands

fYear

2012

fDate

20-22 June 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

A simple and low cost remote up conversion (RUC) scheme is proposed using only one optical modulator. The baseband (BB) data and local oscillator (LO) signal are electrically coupled to drive a commercial intense modulator (IM). The laser source and IM can be shared by both BB data and LO signal. With less than 0.3dB power penalty, the 2.5Gbps on-off keying (OOK) data over 50km single mode fiber (SMF) is successfully distributed in a 60GHz ROF system without any chromatic dispersion compensation. The low cost and low power penalty suggest that such scheme is suitable for low cost 60GHz optical-wireless networks.

Keywords

amplitude shift keying; optical modulation; oscillators; radio-over-fibre; ROF system; baseband data; bit rate 2.5 Gbit/s; frequency 60 GHz; intense modulator; laser source; local oscillator signal; on-off keying data; optical modulator; optical-wireless network; radio-over-fiber system; remote-up conversion scheme; single mode fiber; Optical amplifiers; Optical feedback; Optical fibers; Optical filters; Optical modulation; Optical polarization; 60GHz Radio-over-fiber; optical-wireless; remote up conversion; semiconductor optical amplifier;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Networks and Optical Communications (NOC), 2012 17th European Conference on

Conference_Location

Vilanova i la Geltru

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0949-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4673-0950-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NOC.2012.6249921

Filename

6249921