Multi-wavelength, 4.32 Gbps UWB radio-over-fiber demonstration featuring a reflective electro-absorption transceiver and low-Cost DWDM grid VCSELs

Author

Thakur, Manoj P. ; Quinlan, Terence ; Anas, Siti B Ahmad ; Hunter, David K. ; Walker, Stuart D. ; Smith, David W. ; Borghesani, Anna ; Moodie, David

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. & Electron. Syst., Univ. of Essex, Colchester

fYear

2009

fDate

22-26 March 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

We demonstrate multi-wavelength UWB radio-over-fiber transmission with 4.32 Gbps throughput over 26.2 km of fiber using a reflective electro-absorption transceiver. Overall EVMs better than -16.8 dB were measured for three VCSEL wavelengths from 1536.3 nm to 1537.8 nm.

Keywords

optical communication equipment; radio-over-fibre; transceivers; ultra wideband communication; wavelength division multiplexing; bit rate 4.32 Gbit/s; dense wavelength division multiplexing; distance 26.2 km; low-cost DWDM grid VCSELs; multiwavelength UWB radio-over-fiber demonstration; reflective electroabsorption transceiver; wavelength 1536.3 nm to 1537.8 nm; Transceivers; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers; Wavelength division multiplexing; 060.4510(Optical communications); 060.5625(Radio frequency photonics); 250.0250(Optoelectronics);

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

5032806