Transmission of RF and microwave signals by optical fiber

Author

Vilcot, J.-P. ; Lethien, C.

Author_Institution

Inst. d´´Electronique de Microelectronique et de Nanotechnologie, CNRS, Villeneuve d´´Ascq, France

fYear

2004

fDate

19-23 April 2004

Firstpage

169

Lastpage

170

Abstract

This work describes the different indoor applications and relative device requirements of the transmission of microwave or RF signals by optical fiber means. Systems are based on the picocell distribution scheme, which uses the remote antenna concept consisting in a base station, which optically feeds several remote antenna units. Two kinds of systems can be distinguished. The first one deals with RF signals in the 1 GHz to 5 GHz frequency band and is mainly dedicated to the optical transport of mobile communication bands (GSM, UMTS, Hiperlan). The second one is more advanced and is based on an optically generated microwave or even millimeter wave signal (40 GHz and 60 GHz frequency bands); the achievable data bitrate could be then as high as several hundred of Mbits/s.

Keywords

indoor radio; microwave antennas; millimetre wave antennas; mobile antennas; optical fibre communication; picocellular radio; 1 to 5 GHz; RF signal transmission; base station; data bitrate; frequency band; indoor application; microwave signal transmission; millimeter wave signal; mobile communication band; optical feed; optical fiber transmission; optical transport; picocell distribution scheme; remote antenna concept; 3G mobile communication; Antenna feeds; Base stations; GSM; Microwave devices; Microwave generation; Mobile communication; Optical fibers; RF signals; Radio frequency;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information and Communication Technologies: From Theory to Applications, 2004. Proceedings. 2004 International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8482-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTTA.2004.1307675

Filename

1307675