Characterizations of supercontinuum light source for WDM millimeter-wave-band radio-on-fiber systems

Author

Kuri, Toshiaki ; Nakasyotani, Teppei ; Toda, Hiroyuki ; Kitayama, Ken-ichi

Author_Institution

Basic & Adv. Res. Div., Nat. Inst. of Inf. & Commun. Technol., Tokyo, Japan

Volume

17

Issue

6

fYear

2005

fDate

6/1/2005 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1274

Lastpage

1276

Abstract

We qualitatively evaluate for the first time phase-noise characteristics of radio-frequency carriers of a supercontinuum generator and prove to be promising as the multiwavelength light source for wavelength-division-multiplexed millimeter-wave-band radio-on-fiber systems.

Keywords

light sources; microwave photonics; optical communication equipment; optical fibre communication; optical noise; phase noise; supercontinuum generation; wavelength division multiplexing; WDM millimeter-wave-band radio-on-fiber systems; phase-noise; radio-frequency carriers; supercontinuum generator; supercontinuum light source; wavelength-division-multiplexing; Amplitude modulation; Arrayed waveguide gratings; Fiber nonlinear optics; Frequency; Light sources; Noise measurement; Optical filters; Optical noise; Phase noise; Wavelength division multiplexing; Phase noise; radio-on-fiber (ROF); supercontinuum (SC) light source; wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2005.846497

Filename

1432800