Title :
Nonlinear photodetection scheme and its system applications to fiber-optic millimeter-wave wireless down-links
Author :
Tsuchiya, Masahiro ; Hoshida, Takeshi
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. Eng., Tokyo Univ., Japan
fDate :
7/1/1999 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
We report on our study on the nonlinear photodetection (NL-PD) scheme, which we have proposed and demonstrated as an extremely simple configuration for the optoelectronic millimeter-wave (MM-wave) mixing. The topics described in this paper are as follows: (1) advantageous optical MM-wave link architectures employing the NL-PD techniques; (2) operation principle of NL-PD; (3) detailed characterization of optoelectronic MM-wave mixer properties of a waveguide p-i-n photodiode; (4) experimental demonstration of NL-PD performance in analog and digital fiber-optic MM-wave transmission over a 30 km single-mode fiber; and (5) proposal of its possible applications to fiber-optic MM-wave wireless down-links, such as passive antenna base stations and coax-wireless-hybrid fiber-optic CATV systems
Keywords :
cable television; digital communication; hybrid fibre coax networks; integrated optoelectronics; microwave links; microwave photonics; millimetre wave mixers; optical fibre communication; optical receivers; optical signal detection; optical waveguides; p-i-n photodiodes; photodetectors; 30 km; analog fiber-optic MM-wave transmission; coax-wireless-hybrid fiber-optic CATV systems; digital fiber-optic MM-wave transmission; fiber-optic MM-wave wireless down-links; millimeter-wave wireless down-links; mixer properties; nonlinear photodetection scheme; optical MM-wave link architectures; optoelectronic MM-wave mixing; passive antenna base stations; single-mode fiber; system applications; waveguide p-i-n photodiode; Base stations; Coaxial components; Fiber nonlinear optics; Millimeter wave technology; Optical mixing; Optical waveguides; PIN photodiodes; Proposals; Transmitting antennas; Ultraviolet sources;
Journal_Title :
Microwave Theory and Techniques, IEEE Transactions on
