Opto-electronic generation and distribution of optically filtered microwave subcarriers for high-capacity SCM systems

Author

Lima, C.R. ; Gomez, L. ; Greenhalgh, P.A. ; Davies, P.A.

Author_Institution

Electronic Eng. Labs., Kent Univ., Canterbury, UK

fYear

1994

fDate

34470

Firstpage

42430

Lastpage

42434

Abstract

A new opto-electronic fibre-based system architecture to generate and distribute microwave subcarriers is proposed. The system has the advantage of only using passive optical filters and low-bandwidth electronics. The system distribution power budget is estimated for a subcarrier at 5 GHz. Also, some considerations about the requirements for the design of the subcarrier optical filters and the noise performance of the microwave signals generated by a Fabry-Perot gain-switched semiconductor laser are presented

Keywords

optical filters; optical links; optoelectronic devices; semiconductor lasers; subcarrier multiplexing; 5 GHz; Fabry-Perot laser; gain-switched semiconductor laser; high-capacity SCM systems; low-bandwidth electronics; microwave signals; microwave subcarriers; noise performance; optically filtered microwave subcarriers; optoelectronic distribution; optoelectronic fibre based system; optoelectronic generation; passive optical filters; subcarrier optical filters; system architecture; system distribution power budget;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

iet

Conference_Titel

High Capacity Optical Communications, IEE Colloquium on

Conference_Location

London

Type

conf

Filename

316992