Photonic generation of millimeter-wave-band 16-QAM and 16-ASK signals based on orthogonal polarization multiplexing

Author

Zhang, Ye ; Xu, Kun ; Li, Jianqiang ; Huang, Hao ; Wu, Jian ; Hong, Xiaobin ; Lin, Jintong

Author_Institution

Minist. of Educ., Beijing Univ. of Posts & Telecommun., Beijing

Volume

4

fYear

2008

fDate

21-24 April 2008

Firstpage

1797

Lastpage

1798

Abstract

Two novel schemes are proposed to generate 16-ary square quadrature amplitude modulation (16-QAM) signal and 16-ary amplitude shift keying (16-ASK) at millimeter-wave (mm- wave) band. The proposed schemes principally consist of three Mach-Zehnder modulators (MZMs) and a polarization splitter (PBS). The detailed theoretical analysis and simulation results are given out. Compared with the conventional methods, the electronic circuits are simplified in our proposed schemes by employing photonic vector modulator (PVM) in which only one single-wavelength laser and one high speed MZM are needed.

Keywords

amplitude shift keying; modulators; multiplexing; optical communication; quadrature amplitude modulation; 16-ary amplitude shift keying; 16-ary square quadrature amplitude modulation; Mach-Zehnder modulators; millimeter-wave-band 16-ASK signals; millimeter-wave-band 16-QAM signals; orthogonal polarization multiplexing; photonic generation; photonic vector modulator; polarization splitter; single-wavelength laser; Amplitude shift keying; Analytical models; Circuit simulation; Electronic circuits; Millimeter wave circuits; Millimeter wave technology; OFDM; Polarization; Quadrature amplitude modulation; Signal generators;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave and Millimeter Wave Technology, 2008. ICMMT 2008. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Nanjing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1879-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1880-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICMMT.2008.4540827

Filename

4540827