• DocumentCode
    1641849
  • Title

    Optical fibre antenna using D-fibre for radio on fibre applications in microcellular mobile communications

  • Author

    Al-Raweshidy, H.S. ; Muhammad, F.A. ; Senior, J.M.

  • Author_Institution
    Centre for Commun Networks Res., Manchester Metropolitan Univ., UK
  • Volume
    1
  • fYear
    1997
  • Firstpage
    87
  • Abstract
    This paper presents preliminary measurements taken on a novel PVDF-coated D-fibre interferometric antenna to detect RF signals. A sensitivity of 1.7 μrad/V/m per meter of fibre was achieved with a 10 cm fibre length coated with 100 μm thickness of PVDF. In addition, the D-fibre antenna exhibited less radial resonances than when using conventional circularly symmetric fibre
  • Keywords
    Mach-Zehnder interferometers; antennas; cellular radio; land mobile radio; optical fibre networks; optical signal detection; radio equipment; 10 cm; 100 mum; 7 to 70 MHz; PVDF-coated D-fibre interferometric antenna; RF signals detection; microcellular mobile communications; optical fibre antenna; radial resonances; radio on fibre applications; sensitivity; Diode lasers; Mobile antennas; Mobile communication; Optical coupling; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber couplers; Optical fiber testing; Optical fibers; Optical films; Optical modulation;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Global Telecommunications Conference, 1997. GLOBECOM '97., IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Phoenix, AZ
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-4198-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/GLOCOM.1997.632518
  • Filename
    632518