Electrical-to-optical conversion of OFDM 802.11g/a signals by direct current modulation of semiconductor optical amplifiers

Author

Vacondio, Francesco ; Sisto, Marco Michele ; Mathlouthi, Walid ; Rusch, Leslie Ann ; LaRochelle, Sophie

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Laval Univ., Que.

fYear

2006

fDate

Oct. 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

We report experimental results showing direct current modulation of a commercial semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) for electrical to optical conversion of a 64-QAM OFDM analog signal at 54 Mbit/s on 2.5 and 5 GHz carriers. This is believed to be the highest frequency yet experimentally reported for RF signal transmission using a directly modulated semiconductor optical amplifier

Keywords

OFDM modulation; electro-optical modulation; microwave photonics; radio-over-fibre; semiconductor optical amplifiers; 2.5 GHz; 5 GHz; 54 Mbit/s; OFDM analog signal; RF signal transmission; SOA; direct current modulation; electrical-to-optical conversion; microwave communication; optical fiber communication; optical modulation; radio-over-fiber; semiconductor optical amplifier; Base stations; Downlink; OFDM modulation; Optical attenuators; Optical distortion; Optical modulation; Optical saturation; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Signal generators; Stimulated emission; Optical modulation; microwave communication; optical fiber communication; radio-over-fiber (RoF); semiconductor optical amplifiers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Photonics, 2006. MWP '06. International Topical Meeting on

Conference_Location

Grenoble

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0203-4

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0204-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWP.2006.346544

Filename

4153767