Photonic implementation of 4-QAM/QPSK electrical modulation at millimeter-wave frequency

Author

Yu, Xianbin ; Jensen, Jesper Bevensee ; Monroy, Idelfonso Tafur

Author_Institution

Dept. of Photonics Eng., Tech. Univ. of Denmark, Lyngby

fYear

2008

fDate

Sept. 9 2008-Oct. 3 2008

Firstpage

114

Lastpage

116

Abstract

We propose a photonic method for generating millimeter-wave 4-QAM/QPSK modulated signals. The method is based on optical phase modulation by multilevel electrical signals and optical carrier-suppression. Simulation results are presented for 2.5 Gsymbol/s 4-QAM and QPSK signals at a 36 GHz carrier. Furthermore, this method can be extended to generate millimeter-wave m-PSK signals and can be incorporated into broadband radio-over-fiber systems to support wireless/ wireline converged access network.

Keywords

optical modulation; phase modulation; quadrature amplitude modulation; quadrature phase shift keying; 4-QAM/QPSK electrical modulation; broadband radio-over-fiber systems; frequency 36 GHz; millimeter-wave frequency; multilevel electrical signals; optical carrier-suppression; optical phase modulation; photonic implementation; wireless/ wireline converged access network; Frequency modulation; Millimeter wave communication; Millimeter wave technology; Optical attenuators; Optical modulation; Phase modulation; Quadrature phase shift keying; RF signals; Radio frequency; Signal generators;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave photonics, 2008. jointly held with the 2008 asia-pacific microwave photonics conference. mwp/apmp 2008. international topical meeting on

Conference_Location

Gold Coast, Qld

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2168-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2169-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWP.2008.4666648

Filename

4666648