Coherent optical vector modulation for fiber radio using electrooptic microchip lasers |
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Authors: | Yifei Li Bystrom M Yoo D Goldwasser SM Herczfeld PR |
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Affiliation: | Center for Microwave/Lightwave Eng., Drexel Univ., Philadelphia, PA, USA; |
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Abstract: | Future communication systems will require high data rates and flexible modulation. Direct optical phase modulation of two microchip lasers by information-bearing signals allows for high-rate delivery via fiber to a basestation. At the basestation, the coherent optical signals are combined with a reference in a photodetector to produce a microwave/millimeter-wave carrier with arbitrary M-ary quadrature amplitude modulation, which can then be transmitted over a wireless channel. Rapid tuning of the microwave/millimeter-wave carrier, the modulation scheme, and the data rate is achievable through this method with no fixed oscillators at the basestation, thus providing for flexible architectures. Results show a high-quality carrier and, for 4- and 16-QAM, with data rates to 200 Mb/s. Extensions to higher data rates are discussed. |
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