Photonic Generation and Transmission of 2-Gbit/s Power-Efficient IR-UWB Signals Employing an Electro-Optic Phase Modulator

Author

Pengxiao Li ; Hongwei Chen ; Xu Wang ; Hongchen Yu ; Minghua Chen ; Shizhong Xie

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China

Volume

25

Issue

2

fYear

2013

fDate

Jan.15, 2013

Firstpage

144

Lastpage

146

Abstract

We experimentally demonstrate a power-efficient ultrawideband (UWB) generation scheme using an electro-optic phase modulator. The generated UWB pulses are fully Federal Communication Commission compliant with high power efficiency of 52.6%. Furthermore, 2-Gbit/s on-off keying modulated modified UWB triplet signals are transmitted over 20 km optical fiber link without any obvious spectra or pulse shape distortions, and error-free transmission is achieved with power penalties less than 1.5 dB.

Keywords

amplitude shift keying; electro-optical modulation; microwave photonics; phase modulation; radio-over-fibre; ultra wideband technology; IR-UWB signals; bit rate 2 Gbit/s; efficiency 52.6 percent; electro-optic phase modulator; error free transmission; on-off keying modulated modified UWB triplet signals; optical fiber link; photonic generation; photonic transmission; power penalty; size 20 km; ultrawideband generation; Bit error rate; FCC; Modulation; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fibers; Photonics; Shape; Microwave photonics; phase modulation; power spectral density; radio over fiber (RoF); ultrawideband (UWB);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2012.2230158

Filename

6362166