DWDM-PON/mm-Wave wireless converged Next Generation Access Topology using coherent heterodyne detection

Author

Thakur, Manoj P. ; Mikroulis, Spiros ; Renaud, Cyril C. ; Mitchell, Jason E. ; Stohr, Andreas

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Electr. Eng., Univ. Coll. London, London, UK

fYear

2014

fDate

6-10 July 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

A radio-over-fibre system using coherent optical heterodyne detection scheme is proposed, to achieve seamless integration of a photonic Remote Antenna Unit (RAU) into a Next Generation Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexed Passive Optical Network (NG DWDM-PON). The proposed scheme significantly simplifies the optical mm-wave generation and data recovery as it doesn´t require any high-bandwidth modulator at the central office or high-frequency Local Oscillators (LOs) at either the central office or the customer unit; or optical phase-locking techniques to generate the mm-wave wireless signal. A proof-of-concept transmission utilizing 1 Gb/s On-Off Keying is experimentally demonstrated.

Keywords

heterodyne detection; millimetre wave antennas; millimetre wave generation; next generation networks; optical phase locked loops; passive optical networks; radio-over-fibre; wavelength division multiplexing; NG DWDM-PON; RAU; bit rate 1 Gbit/s; central office; coherent optical heterodyne detection scheme; customer unit; data recovery; mm-wave wireless converged next generation access topology; mm-wave wireless signal; next generation dense wavelength division multiplexing; on-off keying; optical mm-wave generation; optical phase-locking techniques; passive optical network; photonic remote antenna unit; proof-of-concept transmission; radio-over-fibre system; Integrated optics; Optical fibers; Optical mixing; Optical network units; Passive optical networks; coherent receiver; mm wave communications; passive optical network; radio over fiber;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2014 16th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Graz

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2014.6876454

Filename

6876454