Experimental characterization of single and cascaded WDM optical interfaces in a MM-wave fiber-radio network

Author

Bakaul, M. ; Nirmalathas, A. ; Lim, C. ; Novak, D. ; Waterhouse, R.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Univ. of Melbourne, Vic., Australia

Volume

18

Issue

1

fYear

2006

Firstpage

115

Lastpage

117

Abstract

The performance of single and cascaded wavelength-division-multiplexed (WDM) optical interfaces that support 37.5-GHz-band 25-GHz-separated wavelength-interleaved dense WDM feeder networks for millimeter-wave fiber-radio systems are characterized experimentally. The interface offers a consolidated base station (BS) architecture by enabling a wavelength reuse technique with transparent optical add-drop-multiplexing functionality to the BS. The modeling of the system predicts that the interface can be cascaded up to ten units without much change in the existing setup.

Keywords

microwave photonics; optical fibre networks; transparency; wavelength division multiplexing; 25 GHz; 37.5 GHz; cascaded WDM optical interface; consolidated base station; dense WDM feeder networks; mm-wave fiber-radio network; single WDM optical interface; transparent optical add-drop-multiplexing; wavelength division multiplexing; wavelength reuse technique; wavelength-interleaved networks; Bragg gratings; Fiber gratings; Intelligent networks; Millimeter wave technology; Optical crosstalk; Optical fiber networks; Optical modulation; Optical network units; WDM networks; Wavelength division multiplexing; Cascaded optical add–drop-multiplexing (OADM); millimeter-wave (mm-wave) fiber-radio system; optical single sideband (OSSB) modulation; remote antenna base station (BS); wavelength interleaving (WI); wavelength reuse;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2005.860015

Filename

1546055