Title :
High-gain radio-over-fiber uplink for mobile fronthaul
Author :
Kanno, Atsushi ; Kuri, Toshiaki ; Kawanishi, Tetsuyas ; Ogawa, Hiroyo ; Imajo, Yoshihiro
Author_Institution :
Nat. Inst. of Inf. & Commun. Technol., Koganei, Japan
Abstract :
We report high-gain optical-to-electrical and electrical-to-optical converters for application to an analog radio-over-fiber link for an uplink signal transport on a mobile fronthaul. A 50-dB gain link with a relatively low noise figure provides an RF sensitivity of less than -90 dBm.
Keywords :
mobile radio; optical communication equipment; optical fibre networks; optical links; optical noise; radio-over-fibre; RF sensitivity; analog radio-over-fiber link; gain 50 dB; high-gain electrical-to-optical converters; high-gain optical-to-electrical converters; high-gain radio-over-fiber uplink; mobile fronthaul; noise figure; uplink signal transport; Mobile communication; Optical attenuators; Optical losses; Optical receivers; Optical sensors; Passive optical networks; Radio frequency;
Conference_Titel :
Microwave Photonics (MWP) and the 2014 9th Asia-Pacific Microwave Photonics Conference (APMP), 2014 International Topical Meeting on
Conference_Location :
Sapporo
DOI :
10.1109/MWP.2014.6994556
