On the Merging of Millimeter-Wave Fiber-Radio Backbone with 25-GHz WDM Ring Networks

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 2203-2210

  Lim, Christina ^a   Nirmalathas, Ampalavanapillai ^a   Attygalle, Manik ^a   Novak, Dalma ^b   Waterhouse, Rod ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b R and D Transmission Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Fiber radio access technology; Fixed wireless access; Millimeter wave communications; Optical fiber communications; Subcarrier multiplexing; Wavelength division multiplexing

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MILLIMETER WAVES; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FILTERS;

RING NETWORKS;

WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

EID: 0142165133     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2003.817708     Document Type: Article

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