Title :
Experimental characterization of single and cascaded WDM optical interfaces in a MM-wave fiber-radio network
Author :
Bakaul, M. ; Nirmalathas, A. ; Lim, C. ; Novak, D. ; Waterhouse, R.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Univ. of Melbourne, Vic., Australia
Abstract :
The performance of single and cascaded wavelength-division-multiplexed (WDM) optical interfaces that support 37.5-GHz-band 25-GHz-separated wavelength-interleaved dense WDM feeder networks for millimeter-wave fiber-radio systems are characterized experimentally. The interface offers a consolidated base station (BS) architecture by enabling a wavelength reuse technique with transparent optical add-drop-multiplexing functionality to the BS. The modeling of the system predicts that the interface can be cascaded up to ten units without much change in the existing setup.
Keywords :
microwave photonics; optical fibre networks; transparency; wavelength division multiplexing; 25 GHz; 37.5 GHz; cascaded WDM optical interface; consolidated base station; dense WDM feeder networks; mm-wave fiber-radio network; single WDM optical interface; transparent optical add-drop-multiplexing; wavelength division multiplexing; wavelength reuse technique; wavelength-interleaved networks; Bragg gratings; Fiber gratings; Intelligent networks; Millimeter wave technology; Optical crosstalk; Optical fiber networks; Optical modulation; Optical network units; WDM networks; Wavelength division multiplexing; Cascaded optical add–drop-multiplexing (OADM); millimeter-wave (mm-wave) fiber-radio system; optical single sideband (OSSB) modulation; remote antenna base station (BS); wavelength interleaving (WI); wavelength reuse;
Journal_Title :
Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/LPT.2005.860015
