Microwave Signal Generation and Transmission Based on Optical Frequency Multiplication With a Polarization Interferometer

Author

Larrodé, M. García ; Koonen, A.M.J. ; Olmos, J. J Vegas ; Verdurmen, E.J.M.

Author_Institution

Eindhoven Univ. of Technol., Eindhoven

Volume

25

Issue

6

fYear

2007

fDate

6/1/2007 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1372

Lastpage

1378

Abstract

A novel scheme is proposed and experimentally demonstrated for the generation of microwaves, based on the optical frequency multiplication principle employing a polarization interferometer. Generation of 120-Mb/s 64-quadrature-amplitude-modulation microwave signals at 40 and 24 GHz and its transmission over 25 km of single-mode fiber and 4.4 km of multimode fiber, respectively, are successfully demonstrated. The scheme is robust against laser phase noise, presents tolerance against dispersion impairments in transmission, and shows high-performance stability.

Keywords

light interferometry; light polarisation; microwave generation; microwave photonics; microwave propagation; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre networks; quadrature amplitude modulation; radio-over-fibre; bit rate 120 Mbit/s; dispersion impairment tolerance; distance 25 km; distance 4.4 km; frequency 24 GHz; frequency 40 GHz; high- performance stability; microwave signal generation; microwave signal transmission; multimode fiber; optical frequency multiplication; polarization interferometer; quadrature-amplitude-modulation microwave signals; single-mode fiber; wireless access networks; Frequency conversion; Laser stability; Microwave generation; Noise robustness; Optical fiber polarization; Optical interferometry; Optical noise; Optical polarization; Robust stability; Signal generators; Multimode fiber (MMF); optical fiber communication; radio-over-fiber (RoF); wireless access networks;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JLT.2007.895338

Filename

4232511