Generation and Transmission of a Quasi-Optical Single Sideband Signal for Radio-Over-Fiber Systems

Author

Park, Minho ; Kim, Kyu-Cheol ; Song, Jong-In

Author_Institution

Dept. of Nanobio Mater. & Electron., Gwangju Inst. of Sci. & Technol. (GIST), Gwangju, South Korea

Volume

23

Issue

6

fYear

2011

fDate

3/15/2011 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

383

Lastpage

385

Abstract

Generation of a quasi-optical single sideband (OSSB) signal for a radio-over-fiber system utilizing the coherent population oscillation effects in a nonlinear semiconductor optical amplifier and transmission over a single-mode fiber (SMF) are investigated. The quasi-OSSB signal generator consists of an electroabsorption modulator and a nonlinear semiconductor optical amplifier. Characteristics of generated quasi-OSSB signals having different radio-frequency (RF) waves (1-50 GHz) transmitted over SMFs of different lengths (4-21 km) were investigated. Bit-error-rate performance of quasi-OSSB signals having 155-Mb/s differential phase-shift keying (DPSK) data transmitted over 0- to 55-km-long SMFs was also evaluated.

Keywords

differential phase shift keying; electro-optical modulation; electroabsorption; light coherence; light transmission; microwave photonics; nonlinear optics; optical transmitters; radio-over-fibre; semiconductor optical amplifiers; bit rate 155 Mbit/s; bit-error-rate performance; coherent population oscillation effects; differential phase-shift keying; electroabsorption modulator; frequency 1 GHz to 50 GHz; nonlinear semiconductor optical amplifier; quasiOSSB signal generator; quasioptical single sideband signal; radio-over-fiber system; signal transmission; single-mode fiber; size 4 km to 21 km; Coherent population oscillations (CPOs); microwave photonics; nonlinear semiconductor optical amplifier (NSOA); optical fiber dispersion; optical single sideband (OSSB); radio-over-fiber (RoF); slow and fast lights;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2011.2106769

Filename

5688438