Optical Heterodyning for Reduction of Chromatic Dispersion Sensitivity in 60 GHz Mode-Locked Laser Systems

Author

Rzaigui, Habeb ; Poette, Julien ; Cabon, Beatrice ; Brendel, Friederike ; Khayatzadeh, Ramin

Author_Institution

Inst. of Microelectron. Electromagn. & Photonics-LAHC, Grenoble, France

Volume

31

Issue

17

fYear

2013

fDate

Sept.1, 2013

Firstpage

2955

Lastpage

2960

Abstract

In this paper, a method is proposed to reduce the sensitivity to chromatic dispersion over a fiber optic link based on mode-locked lasers for Millimeter Waves (MMW) generation and transmission. The simulation presented here gives an estimation of the length margin of fiber available for radio-over-fiber networks with minimal sensitivity and maximum received MMW power. The simulation results are verified experimentally by means of a 60 GHz mode-locked laser system combined with an unbalanced Mach Zehnder interferometer for the compensation of the impact of dispersion effects on transmitted MMW power and fiber length range.

Keywords

Mach-Zehnder interferometers; laser mode locking; optical fibre dispersion; optical links; radio-over-fibre; chromatic dispersion sensitivity; dispersion effects; fiber length range; fiber optic link; frequency 60 GHz; length margin; millimeter wave generation; millimeter wave transmission; mode-locked laser systems; optical heterodyning; radio-over-fiber networks; transmitted MMW power; unbalanced Mach Zehnder interferometer; Chromatic dispersion; Fiber lasers; Laser mode locking; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fibers; Chromatic dispersion; fiber link; millimeter waves (MMW) generation and transmission; mode-locked laser diode (MLLD); radio over fiber (RoF); unbalanced Mach Zehnder interferometer (UMZI);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JLT.2013.2274871

Filename

6568870