Simultaneous Generation of Independent Wired and Wireless Services Using a Single Modulator in Millimeter-Wave-Band Radio-Over-Fiber Systems

Author

Jia, Zhensheng ; Yu, Jianjun ; Chowdhury, Arshad ; Ellinas, Georgios ; Chang, Gee-Kung

Author_Institution

Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta

Volume

19

Issue

20

fYear

2007

Firstpage

1691

Lastpage

1693

Abstract

We experimentally demonstrated a novel radio-over-fiber scheme to simultaneously obtain independent wired and wireless signals by using only a single intensity modulator. The optical 40- or 60-GHz millimeter-wave (mm-wave) carriers are generated by means of subcarrier-multiplexing techniques to carry 2.5-Gb/s wireless signals while 10-Gb/s wired signals are imposed on the original optical carrier via regular intensity modulation. The signals with dual services are successfully transmitted over 20-km single-mode fiber (SMF-28) with less than 1.5-dB power penalty.

Keywords

intensity modulation; millimetre wave generation; radio-over-fibre; subcarrier multiplexing; bit rate 2.5 Gbit/s; distance 20 km; frequency 40 GHz to 60 GHz; intensity modulation; intensity modulator; millimeter-wave-band; radio-over-fiber systems; subcarrier-multiplexing; wired services; wireless services; Arrayed waveguide gratings; Bandwidth; Baseband; High speed optical techniques; Intensity modulation; Millimeter wave technology; Optical crosstalk; Optical modulation; Optical receivers; Signal generators; Millimeter-wave (mm-wave); optical-wireless; radio-over-fiber (ROF); subcarrier multiplexing (SCM); wired and wireless services;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2007.905196

Filename

4339516