Dispersion effects in optical millimeter-wave systems using self-heterodyne method for transport and generation

Author

Hofstetter, Rolf ; Schmuck, Harald ; Heidemann, Rolf

Author_Institution

Res. Centre, Alcatel SEL AG, Stuttgart, Germany

Volume

43

Issue

9

fYear

1995

fDate

9/1/1995 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

2263

Lastpage

2269

Abstract

This paper describes the detrimental effects of chromatic and polarization mode dispersion (PMD) on systems using single-laser-based optical self-heterodyning for generation and transport of millimeter (mm)-wave signals. The decrease of the generated mm-wave power due to chromatic dispersion in conjunction with nonnegligible laser phase noise is calculated and experimentally verified. Considering statistical properties of the PMD an analytical expression for the cumulative probability distribution of the power penalty is found and used to determine the required system margin for a given system outage rate. Furthermore, two system experiments using ASK and DPSK modulation scheme, respectively, are presented showing no limitation due to the dispersion effects

Keywords

amplitude shift keying; differential phase shift keying; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical modulation; radiocommunication; ASK; DPSK; chromatic dispersion; cumulative probability distribution; dispersion effects; generated mm-wave power; laser phase noise; optical millimeter-wave systems; polarization mode dispersion; single-laser-based optical self-heterodyning; statistical properties; system outage rate; Chromatic dispersion; Distributed power generation; Laser modes; Laser noise; Optical noise; Phase noise; Polarization mode dispersion; Power generation; Power lasers; Signal generators;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Microwave Theory and Techniques, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9480

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/22.414574

Filename

414574