A novel photonic frequency down-shifting technique for millimeter-wave-band radio-over-fiber systems

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1728-1730

  Zhou, Gang ^a   Zhang, Xiupu ^a   Yao, Jianping ^b   Wu, Ke ^c   Kashyap, Raman ^c  

^a Civil and Environmental Engineering   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Microwave photonics; Millimeter wave (mmwave); Optical fiber communications; Radio over fiber (RoF)

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT MODULATION; LIGHT MODULATORS; MILLIMETER WAVES; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTICAL FIBERS; RADIO SYSTEMS;

ELECTROABSORPTION MODULATOR (EAM); MACH-ZEHNDER MODULATOR (MZM); MICROWAVE PHOTONICS; OPTICAL FIBER COMMUNICATIONS; RADIO-OVER-FIBER (ROF) SYSTEMS;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 23844516347     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2005.851906     Document Type: Article

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