Design and performance of wideband subcarrier multiplexed lightwave systems

Author

Olshansky, Robert ; Lanzisera, Vincent ; Hill, Paul

Author_Institution

GTE Labs., Waltham, MA, USA

fYear

1988

fDate

11-15 Sep 1988

Firstpage

143

Abstract

The transmission bandwidth of SCM systems is not determined by the availability of electronics, but by the modulation characters of high speed semiconductor lasers. The authors analyze the limitations on SCM systems imposed by laser modulation depth and by second order laser intermodulation products. The performance potential of wideband SCM systems is demonstrated with three systems experiments: a 120 channel FM video transmission using the 2.8-7.6 GHz band; the combination of 60 FM channels and a 100 Mb/s baseband digital signal; and a 20 channel FSK system transmitting 100 Mb/s channel in the 2-6 GHz band

Keywords

digital communication systems; frequency shift keying; laser beam applications; optical links; optical modulation; semiconductor junction lasers; video signals; 100 Mbit/s; 120 channel FM video transmission; 2.8 to 7.6 GHz; 20 channel FSK system; SCM systems; SHF; baseband digital signal; high speed semiconductor lasers; laser intermodulation products; laser modulation depth; transmission bandwidth; wideband subcarrier multiplexed lightwave systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

iet

Conference_Titel

Optical Communication, 1988. (ECOC 88). Fourteenth European Conference on (Conf. Publ. No.292)

Conference_Location

Brighton

Type

conf

Filename

93543