Optical delivery of modulated millimetre-wave signals using free-running laser heterodyne with frequency drift cancellation

Author

Johansson, L.A. ; Seeds, A.J.

Author_Institution

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

Volume

3

fYear

2002

fDate

2-7 June 2002

Firstpage

1695

Abstract

A new millimetre-wave over fibre architecture is proposed and demonstrated using remote cancellation of phase and frequency fluctuations of two-laser heterodyne. A 36 GHz millimetre-wave carrier is optically delivered with -85 dBc/Hz noise level at 10 kHz offset. The system is used to demonstrate transmission of a 68 Mbit/s BPSK modulated 36 GHz signal through 25 km standard single-mode fibre.

Keywords

frequency stability; heterodyne detection; microwave links; microwave photonics; optical fibre networks; optical links; optical noise; optical transmitters; phase shift keying; 25 km; 36 GHz; 68 Mbit/s; BPSK modulated signal transmission; free-running laser heterodyne; frequency drift cancellation; millimetre-wave carrier; millimetre-wave over fibre architecture; modulated millimetre-wave signals; noise level; offset frequency; optical delivery; remote frequency fluctuation cancellation; remote phase fluctuation cancellation; standard single-mode fibre; Base stations; Fiber lasers; Frequency; Intensity modulation; Laser stability; Optical mixing; Optical modulation; Optical network units; Optical noise; Optical transmitters;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Symposium Digest, 2002 IEEE MTT-S International

Conference_Location

Seattle, WA, USA

ISSN

0149-645X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7239-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWSYM.2002.1012186

Filename

1012186