Convergence of optical and millimeter-wave broadband wireless access networks

Author

Medeiros, M.C.R. ; Avó, R. ; Laurêncio, P. ; Darwazeh, I. ; Mitchell, J.E. ; Monteiro, P.M.N. ; Silva, H. J A da

Author_Institution

Center for Electron., Optoelectron. & Telecommun., Univ. of Algarve, Faro, Portugal

fYear

2009

fDate

June 28 2009-July 2 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

This paper discusses hybrid fiber optic access network architectures combining baseband wireline and mm-wave channels. We focus on mm-wave radio over fiber (RoF) optical access network architectures which combine radio subcarrier multiplexing techniques to improve system efficiency with fiber dispersion mitigation provided by optical single sideband modulation techniques. Besides discussing the network architecture we focus on the intermodulation effects arising from the nonlinear characteristics of the optical modulator and the reflective semiconductor optical amplifier.

Keywords

intermodulation; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre networks; optical modulation; radio access networks; radio-over-fibre; semiconductor optical amplifiers; subcarrier multiplexing; baseband wireline channels; broadband wireless access networks; fiber dispersion mitigation; hybrid fiber optic access network; intermodulation; millimeter-wave wireless access networks; mm-wave channels; mm-wave radio over fiber; nonlinear characteristics; optical modulator; optical single sideband modulation; radio subcarrier multiplexing; reflective semiconductor optical amplifier; Baseband; Convergence; Fiber nonlinear optics; Millimeter wave technology; Nonlinear optics; Optical fiber networks; Optical fibers; Optical modulation; Stimulated emission; Wireless networks; optical access networks; optical single side band; radio over fiber; reflective semiconductor optical amplifiers; wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks, 2009. ICTON '09. 11th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Azores

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4825-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4827-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2009.5185018

Filename

5185018