Microwave signal generation based on optical heterodyne and its application in optical telecommunication system

Author

Baylón-Fuentes, A. ; Hernández-Nava, P. ; Zaldívar-Huerta, I.E. ; Rodríguez-Asomoza, J. ; García-Juárez, A. ; Aguayo-Rodríguez, G.

Author_Institution

Inst. Nac. de Astrofis. Opt. y Electron., Puebla, Mexico

fYear

2011

fDate

Feb. 28 2011-March 2 2011

Firstpage

334

Lastpage

338

Abstract

Microwave signal generation based on optical heterodyne technique is presented. In order to demonstrate the feasibility of this technique, it is important to have an application on optical telecommunications systems, where the microwave signal obtained is used to drive a Mach-Zehnder Intensity modulator as part of an external modulation scheme. At the same time the microwave signal is used to synchronize the reception stage. Finally, a practical application is shown when TV-signal is transmitted through 28 Km of standard single mode fiber.

Keywords

intensity modulation; optical communication; optical modulation; reception; synchronisation; Mach-Zehnder intensity modulator; TV signal; distance 28 km; external modulation scheme; microwave signal generation; optical heterodyne; optical telecommunication system; single mode fiber; Masers; Optical fibers; Optical mixing; Optical polarization; Optical sensors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical Communications and Computers (CONIELECOMP), 2011 21st International Conference on

Conference_Location

San Andres Cholula

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9558-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CONIELECOMP.2011.5749336

Filename

5749336