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Experimental evaluation of a R-EAM and noise impact analysis for UWB and Wi-Fi transmission in RoF networks

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The performance of a reflective electro-absorption modulator transceiver is assessed in terms of both slope efficiency (SE) and responsivity in a radio-over-fiber network. Different biasing schemes are analyzed, specifically zero bias (passive solution), bias for maximum SE, and bias for maximum responsivity. Finally, two case studies on multiband orthogonal frequency division multiplexing ultra-wide band and Wi-Fi are presented, for which the optimum setup parameters are determined.

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Acknowledgements

We acknowledge funding from FCT and program POCTI/FEDER under the National Plan for Scientific Hardware Renewal with grant REEQ/1272/EEI/2005.

This work was supported in part by FCT under the project “Design and Optimisation of WDM Millimetre-Wave Fibre-Radio Systems” (PTDC/EEA-TEL/68974/2006) and EC Framework 7 (FP7) project DAPHNE (www.fp7daphne.eu) “Developing aircraft photonic networks” (grant ACP8-GA - 2009-233709). D. V. Coelho also acknowledges support from FCT through a PhD grant.

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  1. INESC TEC (formerly INESC Porto), Porto, Portugal

    L. M. Pessoa, J. M. B. Oliveira, D. V. Coelho, J. C. S. Castro & H. M. Salgado

  2. Faculdade de Engenharia, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal

    L. M. Pessoa, J. M. B. Oliveira, D. V. Coelho & H. M. Salgado

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Pessoa, L.M., Oliveira, J.M.B., Coelho, D.V. et al. Experimental evaluation of a R-EAM and noise impact analysis for UWB and Wi-Fi transmission in RoF networks. Ann. Telecommun. 68, 63–72 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12243-012-0312-0

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