Experimental Study of Radio Frequency Transmission over Standard and High-Bandwidth Multimode Optical Fibers

Author

Sauer, Michael ; Kobyakov, Andrey ; Hurley, Jason E. ; George, Jacob

Author_Institution

Coming Inc., Science and Technology Division, One Science Center Drive, Coming NY 14831, sauerm@corning.com

fYear

2005

fDate

12-14 Oct. 2005

Firstpage

99

Lastpage

102

Abstract

We experimentally study radio frequency (RF) transmission over several standard (core diameter 62.5 gm) and high-bandwidth (core diameter 50 μm) multimode fibers (MMFs) with a wide range of bandwidths (170 MHz·km to 2600 MHz·km). Performance of the radio-over-fiber (RoF) link is assessed in terms of the error vector magnitude (EVM). An IEEE 802.11b/gwirless access point and a MMF link using a directly-modulated 850 nm vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) are implemented for demonstrating a robust system performance (EVM <4.4 %rms maximum) over 300 m (maximum in-building distance) for any of the 21 fibers investigated.

Keywords

802.11b/g; VCSEL; WLAN; multimode fiber; picocell; radio-over-fiber; remote antenna; Bandwidth; Fiber lasers; Laser theory; OFDM; Optical fibers; Radio frequency; Spread spectrum communication; Surface emitting lasers; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers; Wireless LAN; 802.11b/g; VCSEL; WLAN; multimode fiber; picocell; radio-over-fiber; remote antenna;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Photonics, 2005. MWP 2005. International Topical Meeting on

Print_ISBN

89-950043-3-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWP.2005.203549

Filename

1590277