All-optical up-conversion of millimeter-wave signals for ROF system using optical carrier suppression-based dual-pump FWM in an SOA

Author

Dong, Z. ; Cao, Z. ; Lu, J. ; Chen, L. ; Wen, S. ; Jia, Z. ; Chang, G.K.

Author_Institution

Key Lab. for Micro/Nano Opto-Electron. Devices of Minist. of Educ., Hunan Univ., Changsha

fYear

2009

fDate

22-26 March 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

We experimentally demonstrate all-optical up-conversion of radio-over-fiber signals based on a dual-pump four-wave mixing in an semiconductor optical amplifier for the first time. 2.5 Gbit/s baseband signals are successfully up-converted to 40-GHz millimeter-wave carrier.

Keywords

microwave photonics; multiwave mixing; radio-over-fibre; semiconductor optical amplifiers; ROF system; SOA; all-optical up-conversion; bit rate 2.5 Gbit/s; dual-pump FWM; four-wave mixing; frequency 40 GHz; millimeter-wave signal; optical carrier suppression; radio-over-fiber technique; semiconductor optical amplifier; Fiber nonlinear optics; Nonlinear optics; Optical crosstalk; Optical filters; Optical mixing; Optical polarization; Optical pumping; Optical sensors; Passive optical networks; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; (060. 2330) Fiber optical communications; (060.2360) Fiber optics links and subsystems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication - incudes post deadline papers, 2009. OFC 2009. Conference on

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2606-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-55752-865-0

Type

conf

Filename

5032410