Simultaneous provision of wired service and dispersion-robust 60GHz wireless service in radio-over-fiber system based on remote up conversion with electrical tones injection.

Abstract: A novel and simple remote up conversion (RUC) scheme is proposed to provide wired service and 60GHz dispersion-robust wireless service in a radio-over-fiber (RoF) system based on electrical tones injection (ETI). According to our knowledge, the RUC scheme with only one modulator is proposed for the first time. The ETI is utilized to simplify the traditional RUC scheme by simultaneously using one modulator for both the modulation of baseband data millimeter wave. Moreover, such scheme can provide both wired and wireless service without any additional device. Experimental results show that 2.5Gbps wired service and 2.5Gbps wireless service at 60GHz are successfully delivered over 50km SMF with power penalty less than 0.3dB. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]