Wideband fibre-agnostic DAS using pluggable analogue optical modules

Author

Hartmann, P. ; Bothwell, A. ; Cronin, R. ; Leeson, K. ; Loveridge, A. ; Parkinson, D.C. ; Ure, J.W. ; Penty, R.V. ; White, I.H. ; Seeds, A.J.

Author_Institution

ZinWave Ltd., Cambridge

fYear

2006

fDate

Oct. 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

We report a wideband (370-2500 MHz) distributed antenna system (DAS) which uses pluggable analogue optical transceivers based on the industry standard small form-factor pluggable (SFP) format. The use of pluggable optics has a number of advantages such as hot-swappability, upgradeability and low initial cost, which has been exploited in the digital world for several years but has not been investigated to the same extend for analogue applications. In addition to the wideband system being RF signal agnostic, the system can also operate over different types of fibre, both SMF and MMF, or coaxial cable, by simply changing the transceiver module

Keywords

broadband antennas; microwave antennas; microwave photonics; optical fibre LAN; optical receivers; optical transmitters; radio-over-fibre; transceivers; wireless LAN; 370 to 2500 MHz; RF signal agnostic; antenna arrays; form-factor pluggable format; microwave communication; optical communication terminals; optical fiber communication; optical transceivers; pluggable analogue optical modules; wideband fibre-agnostic distributed antenna system; wireless LAN; Costs; Frequency; High speed optical techniques; Optical attenuators; Optical fiber cables; Optical fiber communication; Optical fibers; Optical transmitters; Transceivers; Wideband; Antenna arrays; Microwave communication; Optical communication terminals; Optical fiber communication; Wireless LAN;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Photonics, 2006. MWP '06. International Topical Meeting on

Conference_Location

Grenoble

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0203-4

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0204-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWP.2006.346503

Filename

4153805