采用单个相位调制器产生毫米波

实验研究了采用单个相位调制器(PM)产生毫米波的方案。该方案采用电混频器将射频(RF)信号与基带信号混频后再利用相位调制器产生双边带调制(DSB)信号,经光纤传输到基站后用一个光交叉复用器(IL)分离一阶边带和中心载波,一阶边带经过光电(O/E)检测器拍频产生两倍频于射频频率的毫米波,而中心载波可以作为上行链路载波重新利用。理论分析了该毫米波的传输性能,研究发现由于色散导致两个一阶边带时延不同,码元的占空比会随着传输距离的增加而减小,将限制毫米波的最大传输距离;实验中采用频率为20 GHz射频信号产生频率为40 GHz的毫米波,速率为2.5 Gbit/s的非归零(NRZ)码作为下行链路数据,经过20 km色散光纤传输后下行链路的功率代价为0.2 dBm。     

光载毫米波在光纤中传输色散性能研究

提出了并理论分析了一种采用单电极Mach–Zehnder调制器(SD-MZM)产生光载毫米波的方案。采用电混频器将射频信号与基带数字信号混频后再利用单电极调制器产生双边带调制信号并发送至光纤,在基站使用一个交叉复用器(IL)将双边带信号的中心载波与一阶边带信号进行分离,中心载波可用于上行链路的光载波,而一阶边带产生光载毫米波;理论分析了该毫米波的色散特性并在仿真平台上验证了其正确性,研究发现由于光纤色散引起两个一阶边带的延时不同, 从而导致毫米波能量的损失和解调信号的码间干扰,限制了毫米波的最大传输距离。     

A novel scheme to implement duplex 60-GHz radio-over-fiber link with 20-GHz double-sideband optical millimeter-wave transmitted along the fiber

A duplex radio-over-fiber (RoF) link with a novel scheme to generate 60-GHz millimeter (mm)-wave using 20 GHz double sideband (DSB) optical mm-wave with signal carried only by its optical carrier is investigated. In the RoF downlink, the modulation frequency to generate the DSB optical mm-wave is reduced greatly. The theoretical analysis and numerical simulation show that this scheme cannot only eliminate the code form distortion caused by the time shifting of the sidebands, but also reduce the influence of the fading effect as the DSB optical mm-wave signal is transmitted along the fiber. Based on the scheme, the duplex RoF link with the frequency up- (down-) conversion of the down- (up-) link mm-wave signal is built and the uplink transmission performance is analyzed theoretically.     

Full-duplex fiber-wireless link with 40 Gbit/s 16-QAM signals for alternative wired and wireless accesses based on homodyne/heterodyne coherent detection

A novel full-duplex fiber-wireless link with 40 Gbit/s 16-ary quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) signals is proposed to provide alternative wired and wireless accesses for the user terminals. In the central station (CS), the downstream signal for wired and wireless accesses is beared onto the CW laser source via an optical I/Q modulator to realize the QAM modulation. At the hybrid optical network unit (HONU), a tunable laser is used to provide coherent optical local oscillator for homo-/heterodyne beating to coherently down-convert the baseband optical signal to the baseband electrical one for wired access or to the mm-wave one for wireless access according to the requirement of the user terminals. Simultaneously, the lightwave from the tunable laser is also used as the uplink optical carrier for either wired or wireless access, and is modulated colorlessly by the baseband or mm-wave signal of the uplink alternatively. After filtering, only one tone carrying the uplink signal is transmitted back to the CS even for the wireless access. The theoretical analysis and simulation results show that our proposed full-duplex link for the alternative wired and wireless accesses maintains good performance even when the transmission link with standard single mode fiber (SSMF) is extended to 30 km.     

A millimeter-wave radio-over-fiber system for overcoming fiber dispersion-induced signal cancellation effect

Millimeter-wave(mm-wave) radio over fiber(ROF) using dispersive single-mode fiber is susceptible to signal cancellation effect at the output of the uni-travelling carrier photodiode at the base station(BS).The fiber dispersion effect produces different phase shifts of the sidebands of the intensity-modulated lightwave which can produce a cancellation of the output signal when mixed with the optical carrier.In this paper,we propose and analyze a novel scheme of mm-wave ROF which uses microwave modulation at the central station(CS) and frequency upconversion before the BSs.This scheme can overcome fiber dispersion-induced signal cancellation effect.     

New progress of mm-wave radio-over-fiber system based on OFM

This paper presents an overview on new progresses-of millimeter wave (mm-wave) radio-over-fiber (RoF) system based on mm-wave generation by optical frequency multiplication (OFM), including gen-eration of high-order optical side modes by optical modulation using dual-drive Mach-Zehnder modulator (DD-MZM) and enhancement of high-order optical side mode induced by selective amplification due to stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS). The paper describes OFM by using DD-MZM in principle and verifies it in an experimental bidirectional 40GHz RoF system. SBS amplification enhances the generated information-bearing mm-wave in downlink and also helps in producing a pure reference mm-wave for radio frequency-intermediate frequency (RF-IF) down-conversion in uplink. These efforts pushed the OFM technology of mm-RoF systems to achieve more and more feasibility and cost-effectiveness.     

Remote downconversion with wavelength reuse for the radio/fiber uplink connection

The authors present a novel technology for uplink transmission in radio-over-fiber distribution systems. The technique employs remote downconversion of the uplink data to intermediate frequency (IF) in the base station (BS). The local oscillator signal for the downconversion is optically generated in the central station (CS) and sent to the BS via optical fiber. The IF uplink data is then modulated onto an optical carrier, retrieved from the downlink signal, and sent to the CS, where the baseband conversion takes place. By employing this method of uplink connection, simplicity and cost efficiency of the BS is achieved.     

一种基于OPM和FBG滤波器的新型双工ROF系统

提出了一种采用光相位调制器(OPM)和光纤布 拉格光栅(FBG)滤波器实现的双向光纤无线通信(ROF)系统。在中心站,系统采用OPM和FBG滤波器产生抑制一阶边带的多边带光信号 ,而2.5Gbit/s 的下行链路信号只调制在中心光载波上同时经过光纤进行传输。在基站,未被调制的边带信 号用来重新调 制上行链路信号。建立了产生光载毫米波的理论模型,分析了光纤色散导致的相位影响,并 通过仿真实验 验证了系统的可行性。结果显示,经过60km光纤传输后,上、下行 链路信号的眼图都清晰可见,上行链 路功率代价小于0.2dB,下行链路功率代价小于1.8dB,系统具有较好的抗色散能力。     

基于两个平行马赫-增德尔调制器的光载无线传输系统

为提高光载无线(radio over fiber,RoF) 传输系统中的光波信号的利用率,本文提出了一种基于两个平行马赫-增德尔调制器 (Mach-Zehnder modulator,MZM) 的RoF传输系统。两个平行MZM经射频(radio frequency,RF) 信号调制后,产生5个光边带信号,分别是正负一阶光边带、正负二阶光边带和光载波。其中正负二阶光边带使用基带数据进行调制,经光电检测器(photodiode,PD) 拍频后产生已调数据的毫米波信号,再由天线发射出去。正二阶边带和光载波经PD拍频后产生未调制数据的毫米波,该毫米波用于接收端解调的本振信号(local oscillator,LO) 。负二阶边带信号用于上行链路的光载波。在本系统中,5个光边带信号都被充分利用,提高了光信号的利用效率。此外,还分析了该系统通过色散介质的传输特性,为RoF通信系统提供了一种实用化的解决方案。     

Full-duplex hybrid PON/RoF link with the 10 Gbit/s 16-QAM signal for alternative wired and 60 GHz millimeter-wave wireless accesses

A novel full-duplex hybrid access link with 10 Gbit/s 16-ary quadrature amplitude modulation (16-QAM) wired and wireless converged signal is proposed, which can provide PON access or RoF-based wireless access alternately with centralized lightwave source. The converged signal, consisting of the 10 Gbit/s 16-QAM baseband optical signal and two optical local oscillators (OLOs), is generated by central station and can be decomposed in different patterns at remote base station. For the wired PON access, the identical frequency OLO is used to coherently demodulate the 16-QAM signal; while for the RoF-based wireless access, the 16-QAM signal and its parallel polarized OLO are abstracted as optical millimeter wave by a polarization beam splitter; the other OLO is used as the uplink optical carrier to carry wired or wireless uplink signal. Since the three tones come from the same source, they maintain high coherency even after transmitted over fiber link. The proposed hybrid wired/wireless full-duplex fiber link suffers little from fiber chromatic dispersion. These are verified by simulations for both wired and wireless access applications.     

Millimeter-wave broad-band fiber-wireless system incorporating baseband data transmission over fiber and remote LO delivery

We present the first demonstration of a millimeter-wave (mm-wave) broadband fiber-wireless system which incorporates baseband data transmission in both the downstream (622 Mb/s) and upstream (155 Mb/s) directions. The local oscillator (LO) required at the remote antenna base station for up- and downconversion to/from the mm-wave radio frequency (RF) is delivered remotely via a modulation scheme that is tolerant to the effects of fiber chromatic dispersion on the detected LO carrier power. The technique employs a single dual electrode modulator located at the central office (CO) and the data and an RF signal at a frequency equal to half the LO frequency, are applied simultaneously to the device. The modulation scheme was optimized as a function of the modulator operating conditions. Simultaneous bidirectional radio transmission in the mm-wave fiber-wireless network was implemented using specially designed mm-wave diplexers located at the base station (BS) and customer unit, and a single Ka-band printed antenna array at the BS operating simultaneously in transmit and receive mode. Error-free data transmission was demonstrated for both down(34.8 GHz) and uplinks (37.5 GHz) after 20 km of single-mode optical fiber and a bit error rate (BER) of 10/sup -6/ was achieved after the inclusion of a 2-m radio link.     

Transmission Performance of the Optical Millimeter-wave Up-conversion Link Using a Phase Modulator

Numerically analyzed is the transmission performance of the optical millimeter(mm)-wave generated by frequency up-conversion via a phase modulator along the dispersive fiber.60 GHz mm-wave sub-carrier(SC)signals can be obtained after fiber transmission,simultaneously,the phase-modulated signals can be converted to the intensity-modulated ones.The numerical results show that the optical mm-wave at fading loops has better performance,and the eye diagram still keeps open when optical mm-wave signal is transmit...     

毫米波副载波在光无线通信系统中的传输性能

分析了毫米波副载波信号在ROF系统中传输时光纤色散引起的两种效应一幅度衰落和边带脉冲走离,同时模拟了这两种效应对信号性能的影响.理论分析和仿真实验表明边带脉冲的走离限制了信号传输的最大距离,幅度衰落造成了衰落节点信号幅度的减小.理论模型和仿真结果为光载毫米波信号的产生和调制提供了定性和定量分析的基础.     

Full-duplex radio-over-fiber system with photonics frequency quadruples for optical millimeter-wave generation

We have experimentally investigated two different schemes (schemes A and B) to generate optical millimeter-wave using optical frequency quadrupling with a Mach–Zehnder modulator (MZM), and wavelength reuse for uplink connection in the radio-over-fiber (ROF) systems. For scheme A, only one MZM is used for both the optical millimeter-wave generation and signal modulation. For scheme B, two MZMs are used. In this scheme, one of MZMs is used to generate optical millimeter-wave for frequency quadrupling, and another one is used for signal modulation. In both schemes, at the base station (BS), the optical carrier can be reused to carry upstream data and delivered to the central station (CS). By experimentally comparing the performance of downstream and upstream transmission in two schemes, it can be seen that scheme B can overcome the crosstalk between the upstream and downstream signals, but scheme A cannot. Meanwhile we also show that the millimeter-wave generated in scheme B has better quality and is almost robust to fiber chromatic dispersion.     

改进的基于多倍频的单边带调制ROF全双工系统

利用单边带调制技术,设计了一种改进的毫米波光纤传输系统,进行了系统色散分析及仿真实验.该系统在中心站通过设置相位调制器的偏置电压,使调制器产生的奇数边带被抑制,采用滤波器滤出其中的一个二阶边带.基带信号经过中频调制形成副载波,再将此副载波通过单边带调制到二阶边带上;在基站,通过带通滤波器滤出上行链路所需的光载波.用该单...     

A Novel Scheme to Generate Single-Sideband Millimeter-Wave Signals by Using Low-Frequency Local Oscillator Signal

We have proposed and experimentally demonstrated a novel scheme to generate optical millimeter-wave (mm-wave) signals by using single-sideband modulation with low-frequency local oscillator (LO) signals. In this architecture, by incorporating the proper dc bias of the modulator in central office, the optical mm-wave carriers are generated with two times frequency of the LO signal while largely reducing the bandwidth requirement of the modulator. We quantify the optical carrier-to-sideband ratio (CSR) of downstream transmission in this radio-over-fiber (ROF) link and establish that the performance of the ROF system can be significantly improved when the optical signals are transmitted at CSR equal to 0 dB.     

基于级联马赫-曾德电光调制器的60GHz光载毫米波传输系统的研究

提出并实现了一种新的产生毫米波的六倍频技术。采用两个相同的串联马赫一曾德电光调制器（MZM）,调节第1个MZM调制器的偏置电压使其工作在最小传输模式,只输出奇次光谐波分量;调节第2个MZM调制器的偏置电压使其工作在最大传输模式,抑制所有的奇次光谐波分量。实验显示,采用10GHz的射频（RF）信号驱动这两台MZM调制器后...     

Full-Duplex 60-GHz RoF System With Optical Local Oscillating Carrier Distribution Scheme Based on FWM Effect in SOA

A full-duplex 60-GHz radio-over-fiber (RoF) system using novel optical local oscillating (LO) carrier distribution scheme to reduce the system cost and realize centralized management is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. In the proposed scheme, the optical LO carriers for producing remote electrical LO signals at the base stations (BSs) are generated together with the downlink RoF carriers at the central station (CS) via four-wave-mixing effect in semiconductor optical amplifier, and are then distributed to the BSs along with the downlink RoF signals. By down-converting the 60-GHz-band uplink signal with the remotely produced 60-GHz LO signal and reusing the optical LO carriers as the uplink optical source, only a cost-effective intermediate frequency modulator is required at each BS to transmit the uplink signal, which will dramatically reduce the whole system budget due to a large amount of BSs. Moreover, the operating frequency of each BS can be controlled remotely at the CS end to realize centralized management and convenient reconfiguration. Using the proposed scheme, 622-Mb/s signals for both directions are successfully transmitted over a 20-km single-mode fiber link and a 50-cm wireless channel with less than 0.1- and 0.2-dB power penalty for downlink and uplink, respectively.      

A novel scheme to generate multiband millimeter wave signals for 40 GHz full duplex radio-over-fiber system

This paper proposes a new scheme to generate frequency-diversity binary phase shift keying (BPSK) signals for radio-over-fiber (RoF) system. As is well known, the frequency diversity technology has the anti frequency selective fading characteristic and RoF system is a practical solution to increase the capacity and mobility of future-proof contents delivery and serve both fixed and mobile users. In this paper, our proposal can generate 20 GHz and 40 GHz millimeter-wave (mm-wave) signals simultaneously with the data rate of 1.25 Gbit/s employing only one electrical optical phase modulator (EOPM) and one Mach-Zehnder modulator (MZM) at the central station. With one additional MZM at the base station, the full duplex transmission can be accomplished. As the downstream data is phase modulated, the optical signal can be re-used to load the upstream data and no laser diode (LD) is needed at the base station, which simplify the structure of the base station. The 20 GHz electrical carrier is also generated which can be used to demodulate the BPSK signal. The whole scheme can be used in the future duplex RoF system.     

Long-term stabilized millimeter-wave generation using a high-powermode-locked laser diode module

In this paper, a 60-GHz-band millimeter-wave (mm-wave) signal generation using a new 60-GHz mode-locked laser diode (MLLD) module stabilized by an optical injection will be presented. To modularize the MLLD, the precise position alignments and the fine tuning for the repetition rate is released; moreover, the output optical power of more than 6.0 dBm and the stability over nearly 1500 h are obtained. It is experimentally confirmed that the frequency and power stabilities are several tens of hertz and less than 1 dBm, respectively. The generated 60-GHz-band mm-wave signal with the 3-dB linewidth of less than 300 Hz over a 100-km-long optical fiber link is also successfully demonstrated