Dual Band LTCC-Based Wireless Transceiver with Optical Interface using Polymer Fiber

Author

Pergola, Luca ; Bulters, M. ; Gindera, Ralf ; Möllers, Ingo ; Vahldieck, RüIdiger ; Jäger, Dieter

Author_Institution

ETH Zurich, Zurich

fYear

2007

fDate

3-8 June 2007

Firstpage

59

Lastpage

62

Abstract

The design of a dual band base station for IEEE 802.11 a/b/g WLANs, using a radio over fiber approach, is presented. For the first time LTCC technology is being used to couple a graded index polymer optical fiber (GI-POF) to a vertical electroabsorption transceiver. The presented approach enables full optical transceiving functionalities and employs only one optical fiber to connect the base station and the central unit. The need for a light source to be integrated into the base station is eliminated, resulting in a cost effective and power saving module.

Keywords

electroabsorption; gradient index optics; polymer fibres; radio-over-fibre; transceivers; wireless LAN; Bragg modulator; IEEE 802.11 a/b/g WLAN; dual band LTCC based wireless transceiver; graded index polymer optical fiber; low temperature cofired ceramic; optical interface; polymer fiber; radio over fiber; vertical electroabsorption transceiver; Base stations; Dual band; Optical fibers; Optical filters; Optical modulation; Optical network units; Optical polymers; Optical receivers; Optical transmitters; Transceivers; Bragg modulator; LTCC; Wireless LAN; electroabsorption transceiver; polymer optical fiber (POF); radio over fiber (RoF);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Symposium, 2007. IEEE/MTT-S International

Conference_Location

Honolulu, HI

ISSN

0149-645X

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0688-9

Electronic_ISBN

0149-645X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWSYM.2007.380218

Filename

4263740