A 60 GHz 120 Mb/s QPSK fibre-radio transmission experiment incorporating an electroabsorption modulator transceiver for a full duplex optical data path

Author

Wake, D. ; Noel, L. ; Moodie, D.G. ; Marcenac, D.D. ; Westbrook, L.D. ; Nesset, D.

Author_Institution

BT Labs., BT&D Technol. Ltd., Ipswich, UK

Volume

1

fYear

1997

fDate

8-13 June 1997

Firstpage

39

Abstract

A high capacity millimetre-wave fibre-radio system with an elegant return path has been demonstrated for the first time using a number of novel techniques. A 60 GHz carrier signal was generated using a master/slave DFB laser configuration and a remote upconversion scheme was used to provide a fully transparent link for the data signal (120Mb/s QPSK and 20 FM TV channels). Furthermore, an electroabsorption modulator was used as a full duplex transceiver to provide an attractive strategy for the return path.

Keywords

data communication; digital communication; electro-optical modulation; electroabsorption; laser beam applications; optical fibre communication; quadrature phase shift keying; radiocommunication; transceivers; 120 Mbit/s; 60 GHz; EHF; FM TV channels; QPSK fibre-radio transmission experiment; electroabsorption modulator transceiver; full duplex optical data path; high capacity MM-wave system; master/slave DFB laser configuration; millimetre-wave fibre-radio system; remote upconversion scheme; Distributed feedback devices; Frequency; High speed optical techniques; Laser noise; Optical feedback; Optical mixing; Optical noise; Optical receivers; Optical signal processing; Quadrature phase shift keying;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Symposium Digest, 1997., IEEE MTT-S International

Conference_Location

Denver, CO, USA

ISSN

0149-645X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3814-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWSYM.1997.604511

Filename

604511