Generation of optical microwave signals using laser diodes with enhanced modulation response for hybrid radio/fiber systems
Kaszubowska-Anandarajah, AleksandraORCID: 0000-0003-4811-9273, Anandarajah, Prince M.ORCID: 0000-0001-7335-8044 and Barry, Liam P.ORCID: 0000-0001-8366-4790
(2001)
Generation of optical microwave signals using laser diodes with enhanced modulation response for hybrid radio/fiber systems.
In: ICTON-01 - Proceedings of 2001 3rd International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks, 18-21 June 2001, Cracow, Poland.
The authors present the idea of using a laser with improved modulation bandwidth to generate microwave optical signals for hybrid radio/fibre systems. External light injection has been used to enhance the frequency response of the laser and thus greatly improve the overall performance of the hybrid system. Experimental results show an 8 dB improvement in system performance for the externally injected laser in a hybrid radio/fibre system used for distributing 155 Mbit/s data signals on an 18 GHz carrier