All-fiber full-duplex multimode wavelength-division-multiplexing network for radio-over-multimode-fiber distribution of broadband wireless services

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 248-255

  Larrodé, M García ^a,b   Koonen, A M J ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Broadband wireless access; Multimode fiber; Multimode fiber bragg grating; Optical access network; Radio over fiber; Wavelength division multiplexing

Indexed keywords

MULTIMODE FIBERS; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

BROADBAND WIRELESS ACCESS; OPTICAL ACCESS NETWORK;

BROADBAND NETWORKS;

EID: 38149084159     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2007.912208     Document Type: Article

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