A Full-duplex WDM Millimeter-Wave-Band Radio-on-Fiber System Using A Supercontinuum Light Source

Author

Toda, Hiroyuki ; Nakasyotani, Teppei ; Kuri, Toshiaki ; Kitayama, Ken-ichi

Author_Institution

Faculty of Engineering, Doshisha University, Kyotanabe, Kyoto, 610-0321, Japan

fYear

2005

fDate

12-14 Oct. 2005

Firstpage

111

Lastpage

114

Abstract

We demonstrate a full-duplex WDM millimeter-wave-band radio-on-fiber (RoF) system using a supercontinuum (SC) light source. For downlink transmission, the periodic nature of arrayed waveguide grating, where the period is free spectral range, is used for utilizing the full bandwidth of the SC light source. Half of the SC output modes are used for uplink transmission with photonic downconversion. These techniques are effective to use a wealth of optical frequency resources from the SC light source. Two-channel downlink and one-channel uplink 60-GHz band RoF signals were simultaneously transmitted over 25-km standard single-mode fiber with error-free and no noticeable power penalty.

Keywords

Radio-on-fiber (RoF); arrayed waveguide grating; millimeter-wave radio communication; optical waveguide filters; photonic up-and downconversion; supercontinuum (SC) light source; wavelength division multiplexing (WDM); Arrayed waveguide gratings; Bandwidth; Downlink; Fiber nonlinear optics; Light sources; Millimeter wave technology; Nonlinear optics; Optical arrays; Optical waveguides; Wavelength division multiplexing; Radio-on-fiber (RoF); arrayed waveguide grating; millimeter-wave radio communication; optical waveguide filters; photonic up-and downconversion; supercontinuum (SC) light source; wavelength division multiplexing (WDM);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Photonics, 2005. MWP 2005. International Topical Meeting on

Print_ISBN

89-950043-3-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWP.2005.203552

Filename

1590280