Ultra-Wideband (UWB) Transmission over 100 Meters Multi Mode Fiber with 4 Meters Wireless Transmission

We present experimental demonstrations of in-building impulse radio (IR) ultra-wideband (UWB) link consisting of 100 m multi mode fiber (MMF) and 4 m wireless transmission at a record 4 Gbps, and a record 8 m wireless transmission at 2.5 Gbps. A directly modulated vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) was used for the generation of the optical signal. 8 m at 2.5 Gbps corresponds to a bit rate distance product of 20; the highest yet reported for wireless IR-UWB transmission. © 2009 Optical Society of America OCIS codes: (060.2360) Fiber optics links and subsystems; (060.4510) Optical communications References and links 1. Federal Communications Commission, “Revision of Part 15 of the Commission’s Rules regarding UltraWideband Transmission Systems,” (2002) 2. M. Abtahi, M. Mirshafiei, J. Magné, S. LaRochelle, and L. A. Rusch, “All-Optical 500-Mb/s UWB Transceiver: An Experimental Demonstration,” J. Lightw. Technol. 26, 2795–2802 (2008). 3. M. Hanawa, K. Mori, K. Nakamura, A. Matsui, Y. Kanda, and K. Nonaka, “Dispersion tolerant UWB-IR-overFiber transmission under FCC indoor spectrum mask,” OFC/NFOEC2009, March 2009, California, USA, Paper: OTuJ3 (2008). 4. C. Wang, F. Zeng, and J. P. Yao, “All-fiber ultrawideband pulse generation based on spectral shaping and dispersion-induced frequency-to-time conversion,” IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett. 19, 137–139 (2007). 5. Q. Wang and J. Yao, “An electrically switchable optical ultrawideband pulse generator,” J. Lightw. Technol. 25, 3626–3633 (2007). 6. Q. Wang, F. Zeng, S. Blais, and J. Yao, “Optical ultrawideband monocycle pulse generation based on cross-gain modulation in a semiconductor optical amplifier,” Opt. Lett. 31, 3083–3085 (2006). 7. H. Chen, M. Chen, C. Qiu, and S. Xie, “A novel composite method for ultra-wideband doublet pulses generation,” IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett. 19, 2021–2023 (2007). 8. J. Li, S. Fu, K. Xu, J. Wu, J. Lin, M. Tang, and P. Shum, “Photonic ultrawideband monocycle pulse generation using a single electro-optic modulator,” Opt. Lett. 33, 288–290 (2008). 9. W. P. Lin and J. Y. Chen, “Implementation of a new ultrawide-band impulse system,” IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett. 17, 2418–2420 (2005). 10. M. Abtahi, J. Magné, M. Mirshafiei, L. A. Rusch, and S. LaRochelle, “Generation of power-efficient FCCcompliant UWB waveforms using FBGs: Analysis and experiment,” J. Lightw. Technol. 26, 628–635 (2008). 11. Q. Wang and J. Yao, “UWB doublet generation using nonlinearly biased electro-optic intensity modulator,” Electron. Lett. 42, 1304–1305 (2006). 12. T. Kawanishi, T. Sakamoto, and M. Izutsu, “Ultra-wide-band radio signal generation using optical frequencyshift-keying technique,” IEEE Microw. Wireless Compon. Lett. 15, 153–155 (2005). #113626 $15.00 USD Received 30 Jun 2009; revised 20 Aug 2009; accepted 24 Aug 2009; published 8 Sep 2009 (C) 2009 OSA 14 September 2009 / Vol. 17, No. 19 / OPTICS EXPRESS 16898 13. V. Torres-Company, K. Prince, and I. T. Monroy, “Fiber transmission and generation of ultrawideband pulses by direct current modulation of semiconductor lasers and chirp-to-intensity conversion,” Opt. Lett. 33, 222–224 (2008). 14. T. B. Gibbon, X. Yu and I. T. Monroy, “Photonic ultra-wideband 781.25 Mbit/s signal generation and transmission incorporating digital signal processing detectio,” IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., accepted for publication (2009) 15. H. Shams, A. Kaszubowska-Anandarajeh, P. Perry and L. P. Barry “Optical generation, fiber distribution and air transmission for Ultra Wide Band over fiber system,” OFC/NFOEC2009 March 2009, California, USA, post deadline paper (2009). 16. C. Lethien, C. Loyez, J-P. Vilcot and N. Rolland, “A multi-hop UWB radio over polymer fibre system for 60-GHz hybrid network,” European workshop on photonic solutions for wireless, access, and in house networks, 35–36, May 2009, Duisburg, Germany (2009) 17. M. Maria, J. Pérez, M. Beltran, R. Llorente and J. Marti, “Integrated performance analysis of UWB wireless optical transmission in FTTH networks,” 21st Annual Meeting of the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society LEOS 2008, 87–88 (2008)