Up-Conversion of Triple-Band OFDM UWB Signals by a Multimode VCSEL

Author

Ben Ezra, Yosef ; Ran, Moshe ; Lembrikov, Boris I. ; Cabon, Beatrice ; Leibowitch, Amir ; Haridim, Motti

Author_Institution

Holon Inst. of Technol., Holon

Volume

21

Issue

13

fYear

2009

fDate

7/1/2009 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

869

Lastpage

871

Abstract

We present novel experimental results for the all-optical up-conversion of the triple-band orthogonal frequency-division-multiplexing ultra-wideband radio signals from lower frequency band group 1 up to higher frequency band groups 2 or 3 based on the vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser optical second- and third-order nonlinearities. Low conversion losses and error vector magnitude values, respectively, for low bias currents have been demonstrated.

Keywords

OFDM modulation; laser cavity resonators; laser modes; microwave photonics; nonlinear optics; optical transmitters; radio-over-fibre; surface emitting lasers; ultra wideband communication; multimode VCSEL; optical second order nonlinearity; optical third-order nonlinearity; orthogonal frequency-division-multiplexing; radio-over-fiber; triple-band OFDM UWB signal; ultra-wideband radio signal; up-conversion losses; vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser; FCC; OFDM; Optical fiber communication; Optical losses; Optical transmitters; RF signals; Radio access networks; Surface emitting lasers; Ultra wideband technology; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers; Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM); ultra-wideband (UWB) radio signals; vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2009.2019966

Filename

5071738