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New progress of mm-wave radio-over-fiber system based on OFM

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This paper presents an overview on new progresses of millimeter wave (mm-wave) radio-overfiber (RoF) system based on mm-wave generation by optical frequency multiplication (OFM), including generation of high-order optical side modes by optical modulation using dual-drive Mach-Zehnder modulator (DD-MZM) and enhancement of high-order optical side mode induced by selective amplification due to stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS). The paper describes OFM by using DD-MZM in principle and verifies it in an experimental bidirectional 40 GHz RoF system. SBS amplification enhances the generated information-bearing mm-wave in downlink and also helps in producing a pure reference mm-wave for radio frequency-intermediate frequency (RF-IF) down-conversion in uplink. These efforts pushed the OFM technology of mm-RoF systems to achieve more and more feasibility and cost-effectiveness.

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    Rujian Lin, Meiwei Zhu, Zheyun Zhou, Haoshuo Chen & Jiajun Ye

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Lin, R., Zhu, M., Zhou, Z. et al. New progress of mm-wave radio-over-fiber system based on OFM. Front. Optoelectron. China 2, 368–378 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12200-009-0026-8

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