Nonlinear photodetection scheme and its system applications to fiber-optic millimeter-wave wireless down-links

被引:58
作者
Tsuchiya, M [1 ]
Hoshida, T
机构
[1] Univ Tokyo, Dept Elect Engn, Tokyo 1138656, Japan
[2] Fujitsu Labs Ltd, Kanagawa 2118588, Japan
关键词
millimeter-wave communication; millimeterwave mixers; nonlinear detection; optical fiber communications; p-i-n photodiodes;
D O I
10.1109/22.775477
中图分类号
TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
学科分类号
0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
We report on our study on the nonlinear photodetection (NL-PD) scheme, which we have proposed and demonstrated as an extremely simple configuration for the optoelectronic millimeter-wave (mm-wave) mixing. The topics described in this paper are as follows: 1) advantageous optical mm-wave link architectures employing the NL-PD techniques; 2) operation principle of NL-PD; 3) detailed characterization of optoelectronic mm-wave mixer properties of a waveguide p-i-n photodiode; 4) experimental demonstration of NL-PD performance in the analog and digital fiber-optic mm-wave transmission over a 30-km single-mode fiber; and 5) proposal of its possible applications to fiber-optic mm-wave wireless down-links, such as passive antenna base stations and coax-wireless-hybrid fiber-optic CATV systems.
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页码:1342 / 1350
页数:9
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