Generation of 60-GHz MB-OFDM signal-over-fiber by up-conversion using cascaded external modulators

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1496-1502

  Nguyen, Giang Hoang ^a   Cabon, Béatrice ^b   Le Guennec, Yannis ^a  

^a IMEP LAHC   (France)

^b UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

All optical double sideband suppressed carrier modulation; Mach Zehnder interferometer; Optical fiber communications; Radio over fiber (RoF); Ultrawideband (UWB)

Indexed keywords

ALL-OPTICAL; ALL-OPTICAL DOUBLE-SIDEBAND SUPPRESSED CARRIER MODULATION; BIT RATES; ERROR VECTOR MAGNITUDE; EXTERNAL MODULATORS; GHZ BAND; MB-OFDM SIGNALS; MULTI-BAND ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; OPTICAL FIBER COMMUNICATIONS; RADIO-OVER-FIBER; RADIO-OVER-FIBER (ROF); ROOT MEAN SQUARE; STANDARD REQUIREMENTS; ULTRAWIDEBAND APPLICATIONS; UP-CONVERSION;

BIT ERROR RATE; BROADBAND NETWORKS; FIBERS; FREQUENCY ALLOCATION; INTEGRATED OPTOELECTRONICS; INTERFEROMETRY; MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETERS; MODULATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; QUADRATURE PHASE SHIFT KEYING; RADIO BROADCASTING; RADIO TRANSMISSION; REGULATORY COMPLIANCE; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

LIGHT MODULATORS;

EID: 66949176279     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2009.2013218     Document Type: Article

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