Title :
High-speed microwave-photonic vector modulator (MPVM) with wideband carrier tuning and spectral control
Author :
Guangxi Wang ; Jemison, W.D.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of ECE, Lafayette Coll., Easton, PA, USA
Abstract :
A microwave/photonic vector modulator (MPVM) has been demonstrated previously by one of the authors using direct QPSK and 16-QAM modulation at carrier frequencies between 1.0 and 2.0 GHz with data rates to 8 Mb/s. This paper significantly extends this work in several areas to include greater than three octaves of carrier tunability, greater than 70 times increase in data rates to 600 Mb/s, and 27 dB of modulated waveform sidelobe level suppression; the latter is critically important for fiber radio applications requiring wireless transmission.
Keywords :
microwave photonics; optical communication equipment; optical fibre communication; optical modulation; quadrature amplitude modulation; quadrature phase shift keying; 1.0 to 2.0 GHz; 600 Mbit/s; 8 Mbit/s; MPVM; QAM; carrier frequencies; carrier tunability; data rates; direct QPSK; fiber radio applications; high-speed microwave-photonic vector modulator; modulated waveform sidelobe level suppression; spectral control; wideband carrier tuning; wireless transmission; Baseband; Bit error rate; Control systems; Microwave filters; Optical filters; Optical modulation; Optical transmitters; Quadrature phase shift keying; Stimulated emission; Wideband;
Conference_Titel :
Microwave Symposium Digest, 2003 IEEE MTT-S International
Conference_Location :
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7695-1
DOI :
10.1109/MWSYM.2003.1212628
