Investigation of photonic frequency upconversion schemes utilizing FWM in SOAs for RoF applications

Author

Kim, Hyoung-Jun ; Lee, Seung-Hun ; Song, Woo-Keun ; Chun, Jang-Soo ; Kim, Dong-Yu ; Song, Jong-In

Author_Institution

Dept. of Nanobio Mater. & Electron., Gwangju Inst. of Sci. & Technol. (GIST), Gwangju, South Korea

fYear

2011

fDate

21-24 Nov. 2011

Firstpage

1114

Lastpage

1117

Abstract

Two schemes of photonic frequency upconversion utilizing four-wave mixing in a semiconductor optical amplifier were investigated for radio over fiber applications. Optical radio frequency (RF) signals having a RF frequency of 26.5 GHz are generated by mixing an optical intermediate frequency signal having a frequency of 2.5 GHz with an optical local oscillator signal having a frequency of 24 GHz using two different schemes. The scheme-1 provided lower receiver sensitivity while the scheme-2 showed higher peak power and polarization immunity.

Keywords

optical fibre amplifiers; oscillators; polarisation; radio-over-fibre; semiconductor optical amplifiers; FWM; RoF applications; SOA; frequency 2.5 GHz; frequency 24 GHz; frequency 26.5 GHz; optical radio frequency; photonic frequency upconversion schemes; polarization immunity; radio over fiber technology; receiver sensitivity; semiconductor optical amplifier; Optical amplifiers; Optical fiber sensors; Optical fibers; Optical polarization; Optical receivers; four-wave mixing; photonic frequency upconversion; radio over fiber; semiconductor optical amplifier;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

TENCON 2011 - 2011 IEEE Region 10 Conference

Conference_Location

Bali

ISSN

2159-3442

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0256-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TENCON.2011.6129284

Filename

6129284