Internetworking VCSEL-Based Hybrid Base Station Towards Simultaneous Wireless and Wired Transport for Converged Access Network

Author

Bakaul, M. ; Nadarajah, N. ; Nirmalathas, A. ; Wong, E.

Author_Institution

Univ. of Melbourne, Parkville

Volume

20

Issue

8

fYear

2008

fDate

4/15/2008 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

569

Lastpage

571

Abstract

A hybrid base-station (H-BS) scheme that has the potential to establish intercommunications among neighboring access nodes without sending the signals to the edge node to simultaneously transport wireless and wireline services to integrated access nodes is proposed. As the scheme uses vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers as the light source in the H-BS, it can potentially be realized at low cost without any temperature control.

Keywords

integrated optics; laser cavity resonators; optical communication equipment; optical fibre subscriber loops; radio access networks; surface emitting lasers; VCSEL; converged access network; hybrid base-station scheme; integrated access nodes; intercommunications; light source; neighboring access nodes; vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers; wireless services; wireline services; Bandwidth; Base stations; Communication system security; Internetworking; Optical fiber networks; Optical modulation; Optical network units; Semiconductor lasers; Surface emitting lasers; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers; Converged access network; hybrid base station (H-BS); optical network unit; reflective semiconductor optical amplifier (RSOA); remote access node (RAN); vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2008.918875

Filename

4472040