Energy-autonomous picocell remote antenna unit for radio-over-fiber system using the multiservices concept

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 649-651

  Lethien, Christophe ^a   Wake, David ^b   Verbeke, Bernard ^a,c   Vilcot, Jean Pierre ^a   Loyez, Christophe ^a,c   Zegaoui, Malek ^a,c   Gomes, Nathan ^b   Rolland, Nathalie ^a,c   Rolland, Paul Alain ^a,c  

^a UMR National Center for Scientific Research   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUT D ELECTRONIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

10 GbE; energy autonomous access point; multimode fiber; radio over fiber (ROF); wavelength multiplexing; zero power devices

Indexed keywords

10 GBE; ACCESS POINTS; RADIO-OVER-FIBER (ROF); WAVELENGTH MULTIPLEXING; ZERO-POWER;

ANTENNAS; FIBERS; MULTIMODE FIBERS; RADIO TRANSMISSION;

RADIO-OVER-FIBER;

EID: 84859735974     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2012.2185224     Document Type: Article

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