Multiband Signal Generation and Dispersion-Tolerant Transmission Based on Photonic Frequency Tripling Technology for 60-GHz Radio-Over-Fiber Systems

Author

Jia, Zhensheng ; Yu, Jianjun ; Hsueh, Yu-Ting ; Chowdhury, Arshad ; Chien, Hung-Chang ; Buck, John A. ; Chang, Gee-Kung

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA

Volume

20

Issue

17

fYear

2008

Firstpage

1470

Lastpage

1472

Abstract

We designed and experimentally demonstrated an efficient photonic frequency-tripling technology for 60-GHz radio-over-fiber systems to simultaneously realize millimeter-wave (mm-wave), microwave, and baseband signal generation. The technique utilizes vestigial sideband filtering in combination with optical carrier suppression to generate novel alternate subcarrier modulation for high tolerance of fiber dispersion. Experimental verification of the proposed scheme is presented with generation and error-free transmission of 2.1-Gb/s data on the 63-GHz mm-wave and 21-GHz microwave carriers over 50-km single-mode fiber (SMF-28) without dispersion compensation. The power penalty for both signals is less than 1.0 dB.

Keywords

optical fibre networks; optical modulation; radio-over-fibre; signal generators; dispersion-tolerant transmission; multiband signal generation; optical carrier suppression; photonic frequency tripling technology; radio-over-fiber systems; vestigial sideband; Distributed power generation; Frequency; High power microwave generation; Microwave generation; Microwave photonics; Microwave technology; Millimeter wave technology; RF signals; Signal design; Signal generators; Optical carrier suppression (OCS); optical- wireless; photonic frequency tripling; radio-over-fiber (ROF); vestigial sideband (VSB);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2008.927901

Filename

4589012