Bidirectional radio-over-fiber link employing optical frequency multiplication

We propose a bidirectional radio-over-fiber link consisting of an optical downlink transmission employing the optical frequency multiplication principle, a remote local oscillator (LO) generation, a remote down-conversion of the radio-frequency uplink signals, and an optical uplink transmission empl...

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Veröffentlicht in:IEEE photonics technology letters 2006-01, Vol.18 (1), p.241-243
Hauptverfasser: Larrode, M.G., Koonen, A.M.J., Olmos, J.J.V., Ng'Oma, A.
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:We propose a bidirectional radio-over-fiber link consisting of an optical downlink transmission employing the optical frequency multiplication principle, a remote local oscillator (LO) generation, a remote down-conversion of the radio-frequency uplink signals, and an optical uplink transmission employing intensity modulation-direct detection. Experiments demonstrate the optical up-conversion of 64-level quadrature amplitude modulated radio signals to 17.8 GHz after transmission over 4.4 km of multimode fiber, 12.5 and 25 km of single-mode fiber in the downlink; the uplink performance is evaluated in terms of down-conversion loss employing the optically generated LO.
ISSN:1041-1135
1941-0174
DOI:10.1109/LPT.2005.862011