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All‐optical frequency up‐conversion for WLAN over fiber applications
Author(s) -
Le Guennec Y.,
Maury G.,
Voinot S.,
Cabon B.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
microwave and optical technology letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.304
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1098-2760
pISSN - 0895-2477
DOI - 10.1002/mop.21369
Subject(s) - microwave , radio over fiber , laser diode , diode , power (physics) , electronic engineering , optical fiber , modulation (music) , transmission (telecommunications) , electrical engineering , optoelectronics , engineering , materials science , optics , telecommunications , physics , acoustics , quantum mechanics
This paper investigates up‐conversion of a 54‐Mb/s 802.11a WLAN signal in a radio‐over‐fiber (RoF) link. The frequency conversion is realized using either a DFB laser diode or an electro‐optical modulator (EOM) (both biased in nonlinear regimes). Very low error‐vector magnitude (EVM) measurements are reported at minimum of transmission of electro‐optical modulator for a large 802.11a input power range, and an acceptable EVM degradation is obtained using the cost‐effective LD mixing technique, but with a limited input power range. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 48: 421–424, 2006; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/mop.21369