IR-UWB Transmission in 40-GHz-Band using Optical Conversion by Cascaded Modulators

Author

Nguyen, H.G. ; Merzouk, K. ; Gary, R. ; Cabon, B. ; Constant, S.B. ; Maury, G. ; Guennec, Y. Le

Author_Institution

INPG-MTNATEC, Grenoble

fYear

2007

fDate

3-5 Oct. 2007

Firstpage

100

Lastpage

103

Abstract

This paper investigates electrical to optical (E/O) up-conversion in the 40-GHz-band of an impulse-radio ultra wide band (IR-UWB) signal modulating a RF sub-carrier at 4 GHz. The performances of the system in terms of conversion loss (CL) are demonstrated. The wide bandwidth operation for this up-conversion of UWB signals at 40 GHz is successfully shown experimentally and validated by models.

Keywords

electro-optical modulation; microwave photonics; optical frequency conversion; radio-over-fibre; ultra wideband communication; IR-UWB transmission; UWB signals; cascaded modulators; conversion loss; electrical to optical up-conversion; frequency 40 GHz; impulse-radio ultra wide band signal; optical conversion; Bandwidth; Frequency conversion; Intensity modulation; Optical fibers; Optical mixing; Optical modulation; Optical pumping; RF signals; Radio frequency; Ultra wideband technology; Mach Zehnder interferometer; Radio-over-Fiber (ROF); Ultra-Wide Band (UWB); all-optical double-sideband suppressed-carrier modulation; frequency up-conversion;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Photonics, 2007 IEEE International Topical Meeting on

Conference_Location

Victoria, BC

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1167-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1168-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWP.2007.4378146

Filename

4378146