Multifunctional operation of a fiber Bragg grating in a WDM/SCM radio over fiber distribution system

Author

Kaszubowska, A. ; Anandarajah, P. ; Barry, L.P.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electron. Eng., Dublin City Univ., Ireland

Volume

16

Issue

2

fYear

2004

Firstpage

605

Lastpage

607

Abstract

A radio over fiber distribution system incorporating both sub-carrier multiplexing (SCM) and wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) technologies is presented. The SCM signal contains five 155-Mbit/s data channels, centered around 18.5 GHz with 450 MHz spacing. This signal is directly modulated onto three high-speed lasers with emission frequencies spaced by 50 GHz. Bragg filters are employed at the receiver base-station in order to both demultiplex the required optical channel and ensure that the detected signal is single sideband (in order to overcome dispersion limitations on the link). Our results show negligible degradation in system performance for the demultiplexing of the WDM signal compared with the back-to-back performance curves.

Keywords

Bragg gratings; channel spacing; demultiplexing; microwave photonics; optical fibre communication; optical modulation; semiconductor lasers; subcarrier multiplexing; wavelength division multiplexing; Bragg filters; channel spacing; demultiplexing; fiber Bragg grating; optical modulation; radio over fiber distribution system; signal detection; sub-carrier multiplexing; wavelength division multiplexing; Fiber lasers; Frequency; High speed optical techniques; Optical filters; Optical modulation; Optical receivers; Signal detection; Space technology; Stimulated emission; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2003.821251

Filename

1266505