Simultaneous Transmission of Millimeter-Wave and Baseband Signals Using Wavelength Interleaving and Polarization Multiplexing for an Integrated Reconfigurable Access Network

Author

Tsekrekos, C.P. ; Kuri, T. ; Kitayama, K.-I.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr., Electron., & Inf. Eng., Osaka Univ., Suita, Japan

Volume

21

Issue

21

fYear

2009

Firstpage

1597

Lastpage

1599

Abstract

A novel scheme for the simultaneous transmission of 1.25-Gb/s baseband (BB) signals and 155-Mb/s 60-GHz radio-over-fiber (RoF) signals is experimentally demonstrated. The BB and RoF signals are wavelength-interleaved and polarization multiplexed. Tunable filtering along with polarization demultiplexing are used to drop an RoF signal with the wavelength-interleaved BB signal. This scheme is suited for future reconfigurable ring/bus access networks to provide an integrated platform for BB and millimeter-wave services.

Keywords

integrated optics; microwave photonics; multiplexing; optical fibre filters; optical fibre polarisation; optical fibre subscriber loops; radio-over-fibre; baseband signal transmission; bit rate 1.25 Gbit/s; bit rate 155 Mbit/s; frequency 60 GHz; integrated reconfigurable access network; millimeter-wave transmission; polarization multiplexing; radio-over-fiber signal; tunable filtering; wavelength interleaving; Fiber-to-the-home; integrated optical access network; millimeter-wave; polarization multiplexing (PolMux); radio-over-fiber (RoF); supercontinuum (SC) light source; wavelength-division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2009.2030687

Filename

5223544