Opto-Electronic Engineering, Volume. 35, Issue 4, 126(2008)

Novel Millimeter-Wave Radio-over-Fiber System Using Dual-Electrode Mach-Zehnder Modulator for Millimeter-Wave Generation

ZHU Mei-wei*, LIN Ru-jian, YE Jia-jun, and XIU Ming-lei
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    To overcome the difficulty of optimizing the amplitude of millimeter-wave generated by optical frequency multiplication,a novel millimeter-wave generation technique using dual-electrode Mach-Zehnder (MZ) modulator is proposed.Light-wave injected into dual-electrode MZ modulator is split into two optical carriers,which are phase modulated by two microwave signals respectively and then combined together.Then the light-wave has effect of FM-IM conversion and is photodetected to generate electrical signal consisting of harmonics of the microwave signal.The desired millimeter-wave signal is included in the harmonics and can be maximized just by adjusting phase modulation index.Remote local-oscillator delivery for uplink utilizing subcarrier modulation and the nonlinearity of MZ intensity modulator is also proposed.Data transmission is successfully implemented on downlink and uplink.It shows that millimeter-wave Radio over Fiber (ROF) system based on the proposed generation technique and the remote local-oscillator delivery is feasible.

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    ZHU Mei-wei, LIN Ru-jian, YE Jia-jun, XIU Ming-lei. Novel Millimeter-Wave Radio-over-Fiber System Using Dual-Electrode Mach-Zehnder Modulator for Millimeter-Wave Generation[J]. Opto-Electronic Engineering, 2008, 35(4): 126

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    Received: Jul. 15, 2007

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Mar. 1, 2010

    The Author Email: Mei-wei ZHU (zmw1231@shu.edu.cn)

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    CSTR:32186.14.

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