Simultaneous generation of centralized lightwaves and double/single sideband optical millimeter-wave requiring only low-frequency local oscillator signals for radio-over-fiber systems

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 26, Issue 15, 2008, Pages 2653-2662

  Huang, Ming Fang ^a,b   Yu, Jianjun ^b   Jia, Zhensheng ^a   Chang, Gee Kung ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NEC LABORATORIES AMERICA   (United States)

Author keywords

Double sideband (DSB); Optical carrier reuse; Optical millimeter wave (mm wave); Radio over fiber (ROF); Single sideband (SSB)

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CIVIL AVIATION; DISPERSION (WAVES); ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; FIBERS; MICROWAVES; MILLIMETER WAVES; MODULATORS; OPTICAL FILTERS; RADIO BROADCASTING; RADIO TRANSMISSION; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

DOUBLE-SIDEBAND (DSB); OPTICAL CARRIER REUSE; OPTICAL MILLIMETER-WAVE (MM-WAVE); RADIO-OVER-FIBER (ROF); SINGLE-SIDEBAND (SSB);

LIGHT MODULATORS;

EID: 54949132648     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2008.925653     Document Type: Article

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