Bi-directional, 480Mbps, ultra-wideband, radio-over-fibre transmission using a 1310/1564nm reflective electro-absorption transducer and commercially-available components

Author

Thakur, Manoj P. ; Quinlan, Terence ; Dudley, Sandra ; Toycan, Mehmet ; Bock, Carlos ; Walker, Stuart D. ; Smith, David W. ; Borghesani, Anna ; Moodie, David ; Llorente, Roberto ; Ran, Moshe ; Ben-Ezra, Yossef

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. & Electron. Syst., Univ. of Essex, Colchester

fYear

2008

fDate

21-25 Sept. 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

We present the first experimental demonstration of a bi-directional, reflective, electro-absorption transducer-based, 480 Mbps UWB-wireless/optical transmission system. A -21.4 dB error vector magnitude was observed over 1 km of single mode fibre.

Keywords

OFDM modulation; electro-optical modulation; electroabsorption; radio-over-fibre; transducers; ultra wideband communication; wavelength division multiplexing; CWDM; OFDM; UWB; bidirectional-reflective-electro-absorption transducer; radio-over-fibre transmission; ultra-wideband wireless-optical transmission system; Bidirectional control; Optical attenuators; Optical fiber polarization; Optical modulation; Optical receivers; Optical sensors; Radio frequency; Transducers; Ultra wideband technology; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Communication, 2008. ECOC 2008. 34th European Conference on

Conference_Location

Brussels

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2227-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2228-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ECOC.2008.4729260

Filename

4729260