Photonic-Based RF Transceiver for UWB Multi-Carrier Wireless Systems

Filippo Scotti; Francesco Laghezza; Paolo Ghelfi; Sergio Pinna; Giovanni Serafino; Antonella Bogoni

doi:10.3390/photonics1020146

Photonic-Based RF Transceiver for UWB Multi-Carrier Wireless Systems

Filippo Scotti, Francesco Laghezza, Paolo Ghelfi, Sergio Pinna, Giovanni Serafino, Antonella Bogoni

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In this paper an all-optical system exploitable as the core structure for a photonic-based RF transceiver is presented. The proposed scheme is able to simultaneously perform either up- or down-conversion of multiple frequency Ultra-Wide Band (UWB) RF signals, employing a single Mode-Locking Laser (MLL). The system has been experimentally demonstrated and tested by up- and down-converting orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) signals over a bandwidth of about 4 GHz. The scheme’s performance has been validated by measuring the error vector magnitude (EVM) of the OFDM signals over the whole considered RF spectrum (from 5 GHz to 26.5 GHz), both in up-conversion and in down-conversion. The measurements show negligible power penalties, lower than 0.5 dB. Since the proposed scheme can act either as an up- or down-converter, and it is composed by easily integratable devices, two identical structures can be combined on a single integrated platform, sharing a single MLL, to build a compact and efficient UWB transceiver.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	146-153
Number of pages	8
Journal	Photonics
Volume	1
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/photonics1020146
Publication status	Published - 2014
Externally published	Yes

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