Demonstration of dispersion-tolerant 34 Mbit/s data transmission in electro-optically upconverted 28 GHz LMDS fiber-optic link

Author

Polo, V. ; Ramos, F. ; Marti, J. ; Fuster, J.M.

Author_Institution

ETSI Telecomunicacion, Univ. Politecnica de Valencia, Spain

Volume

3

fYear

1999

fDate

13-19 June 1999

Firstpage

1205

Abstract

It is shown experimentally that the dispersion-induced power penalty may be sharply reduced in electro-optical upconverted millimeter-wave optical links by biasing the Mach-Zehnder electrooptical modulators at the minimum transmission point rather than at the quadrature point. A 34 Mbits/s NRZ signal impressed on a 1 GHz subcarrier was optically upconverted to 28 GHz and transmitted through 73 km of standard single-mode optical fiber with minor impact of fiber dispersion.

Keywords

data communication; digital communication; electro-optical modulation; microwave links; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; 1 GHz; 28 GHz; 34 Mbit/s; 73 km; LMDS fiber-optic link; MM-wave optical links; Mach-Zehnder electrooptical modulators; dispersion-induced power penalty; dispersion-tolerant data transmission; electro-optic upconversion; fiber dispersion; minimum transmission point biasing; single-mode optical fiber; Chirp modulation; Chromatic dispersion; Data communication; Millimeter wave technology; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fibers; Optical mixing; Optical modulation; Radio frequency;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Symposium Digest, 1999 IEEE MTT-S International

Conference_Location

Anaheim, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5135-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWSYM.1999.779603

Filename

779603