Title :
Transmission schemes for millimeter-wave radio-over-fiber system using remote and local heterodyning of free-running lasers and self-homodyning RF receiver
Author :
Islam, A. H M Razibul ; Bakaul, Masuduzzaman ; Nirmalathas, Ampalavanapillai ; Town, Graham
Author_Institution :
Dept. of EEE, Univ. of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Abstract :
Two radio-over-fiber data transmission schemes are demonstrated in which the millimeter-wave carrier is generated by heterodyning two free-running DFB lasers, and detected by self-homodyning at receiver. The system is relatively simple and cheap to implement.
Keywords :
data communication; distributed feedback lasers; optical communication equipment; optical fibre networks; radio receivers; radio-over-fibre; DFB lasers; free-running lasers; millimeter-wave carrier; millimeter-wave radio-over-fiber system; radio-over-fiber data transmission schemes; self-homodyning RF receiver; Frequency modulation; High speed optical techniques; Optical filters; Optical mixing; Optical modulation; Optical receivers; Radio frequency;
Conference_Titel :
Photonics Conference (PHO), 2011 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Arlington, VA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8940-4
DOI :
10.1109/PHO.2011.6110530
