Millimeter-wave radio-over-fiber system based on heterodyned unlocked light sources and self-homodyned RF receiver

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 459-461

  Islam, A H M Razibul ^a   Bakaul, Masuduzzaman ^a   Nirmalathas, Ampalavanapillai ^a   Town, Graham E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Base station (BS); broadband wireless access; millimeter wave (mm wave); optical heterodyne; radio over fiber (RoF); self homodyne

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND WIRELESS ACCESSS; MILLIMETER-WAVE (MM-WAVE); OPTICAL HETERODYNE; RADIO-OVER-FIBER (ROF); SELF-HOMODYNE;

BASE STATIONS; FIBERS; HETERODYNING; LIGHT SOURCES; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES;

MILLIMETER WAVES;

EID: 79953050097     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2011.2107894     Document Type: Article

References (11)

1. Cisco Visual Networking Index: Forecast and Methodology, 2009-2014. Cisco Systems Inc., U.S., 2010, pp. 1-17.
2. C. Lim, A. Nirmalathas, M. Bakaul, K.-L. Lee, D. Novak, and R. Waterhouse, "Mitigation strategy for transmission impairments in millimeterwave radio-over-fiber networks," J. Opt. Netw., vol. 8, no. 25, pp. 201-214, Feb. 2009.
3. J. Yao, "Microwave photonics," J. Lightw. Technol., vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 314-335, Feb. 2009.
4. A. H. M. R. Islam and G. E. Town, "A novel radio over fibre system using a dual-wavelength laser," in Proc. Photonics 2008, New Delhi, India, Dec. 2008, pp. 1-4.
5. M. Bakaul, A. Nirmalathas, C. Lim, D. Novak, and R. Waterhouse, "Simplified multiplexing scheme for wavelength-interleaved DWDM millimeter-wave fiber-radio systems," in Proc. ECOC 2005, Glasgow, Scotland, Sep. 2005, pp. 809-810.
6. J. Yu, Z. Jia, T. Wang, and G. K. Chang, "A novel radio-over-fiber configuration using optical phase modulator to generate an optical mmwave and centralized lightwave for uplink connection," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 140-142, Feb. 1, 2007. (Pubitemid 46344533)
7. G. J. Foschini, L. J. Greenstein, and G. Vannucci, "Noncoherent detection of coherent lightwave signals corrupted by phase noise," IEEE Trans. Commun., vol. 36, no. 3, pp. 306-314, Mar. 1988. (Pubitemid 18612010)
8. T. Kuri and K. Kitayama, "Optical heterodyne of millimeter-waveband radio-on-fiber signals with a remote dual-mode local light source," IEEE Trans. Microw. Theory Tech., vol. 49, no. 10, pt. 2, pp. 2025-2029, Oct. 2001. (Pubitemid 33008236)
9. A. Wiberg, P. Millan, M. Andres, P. A. Andrekson, and P. O. Hedevkist, "Fiber-optic 40-GHz mm-wave link with 2.5 Gb/s data transmission," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., vol. 17, no. 9, pp. 1938-1940, Sep. 2005. (Pubitemid 41488303)
10. C.-S. Choi, Y. Shoji, and H. Ogawa, "Millimeter-wave fiber-fed wireless access systems based on dense wavelength-division-multiplexing networks," IEEE Trans. Microw. Theory Tech., vol. 56, no. 1, pp. 232-241, Jan. 2008.
11. A. H. M. R. Islam, M. Bakaul, A. Nirmalathas, and G. E. Town, "Simplified millimeter-wave radio-over-fiber system using optical heterodyning of low-cost independent light sources and RF homodyning at the receiver," in Proc. MWP 2009, Valencia, Spain, Oct. 2009, pp. 1-4.