First demonstration of cooler-less, bi-directional, format-agnostic, wireless and gigabit ethernet network provision using off-the-shelf VCSELs

Author

Quinlan, Terence ; Dudley, S. ; Morant, Maria ; Llorente, Roberto ; Walker, Stuart

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. Sci. & Electron. Eng., Univ. of Essex, Colchester, UK

fYear

2012

fDate

4-8 March 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

We used cooler-less, directly-modulated, commercially-available, 1345.6 nm and 1541.9 nm VCSELs to deliver bi-directional, co-existing UWB, WiMAX, LTE and GbE capacity over 20.6 km of SSMF. Error-free GbE supported 65 nm SiCMOS 60 GHz pico-cell connectivity.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; Long Term Evolution; WiMax; optical communication equipment; optical fibre LAN; picocellular radio; radio-over-fibre; surface emitting lasers; LTE; SiCMOS; UWB; WiMAX; bidirectional network; cooler-less network; distance 20.6 km; format-agnostic network; frequency 60 GHz; gigabit Ethernet network; off-the-shelf VCSEL; picocell connectivity; size 65 nm; wavelength 1345.6 nm; wavelength 1541.9 nm; wireless network; Adaptive optics; Baseband; Constellation diagram; Standards; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers; WiMAX;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC/NFOEC), 2012 and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference

Conference_Location

Los Angeles, CA

ISSN

pending

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0262-3

Type

conf

Filename

6476547