Radio over fiber for picocellular network architectures

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 3301-3320

  Sauer, Michael ^a   Kobyakov, Andrey ^a   George, Jacob ^a  

^a Corning Inc ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

850 nm VCSEL; IEEE 802.11; Long wavelength InP vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL); Low cost architectures; Multimode fibers (MMFs); Radio frequency identification (RFID); Radio over fiber; Wireless local area network (WLAN)

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY ALLOCATION; MULTIMODE FIBERS; PICOCELLULAR RADIO SYSTEMS; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; SURFACE EMITTING LASERS; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN); WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION; RADIO OVER FIBER;

FIBER OPTICS;

EID: 37249015513     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2007.906822     Document Type: Article

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