Title :
Demonstration of Wavelength Packet Switched Radio-Over-Fiber System
Author :
Kaszubowska-Anandarajah, Aleksandra ; Connolly, E. ; Barry, L.P. ; Perry, P.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electron. Eng., Dublin City Univ.
Abstract :
The authors present a novel concept of employing optical wavelength packet switching in radio-over-fiber access networks. In such a system, the tunable laser (TL) would be employed as a transmitter in the central station. The optical carrier generated by this device would be externally modulated with the data signal upconverted to an RF frequency before being sent to the appropriate base station (BS). If each of the BSs is assigned a unique wavelength, the addressing and routing of traffic could be performed on a packet-by-packet basis with the TL switching between the wavelength assigned to different BSs
Keywords :
laser tuning; microwave photonics; optical fibre subscriber loops; optical transmitters; packet switching; radio-over-fibre; telecommunication network routing; telecommunication traffic; base station; data signal upconversion; external modulation; optical carrier generation; optical transmitter; radio-over-fiber access networks; radio-over-fiber system; traffic routing; tunable laser; wavelength packet switching; Optical devices; Optical fiber networks; Optical modulation; Optical packet switching; Optical transmitters; Packet switching; RF signals; Radio transmitters; Signal generators; Tunable circuits and devices; External modulation; fiber Bragg grating; optical packet switching; radio-over-fiber (RoF); tunable laser (TL);
Journal_Title :
Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/LPT.2006.889103
