High-Power Analog Radio-Over-Fiber Transmission Using a Hollow-Core Photonic Bandgap Fiber
- Resource Type
- Periodical
- Authors
- Murakami, K.; Sugiura, S.; Yamaji, H.; Takagi, T.; Mukasa, K.; Matsuura, M.
- Source
- IEEE Photonics Technology Letters IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett. Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE. 36(11):709-712 Jun, 2024
- Subject
- Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Photonics and Electrooptics
Optical attenuators
Optical network units
Passive optical networks
Propagation losses
Optical losses
Erbium-doped fiber amplifiers
Optical scattering
Hollow-core fibers (HCFs)
photonic bandgap fibers (PBGFs)
radio-over-fiber (RoF)
analog RoF (A-RoF)
stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS)
four-wave-mixing (FWM)
- Language
- ISSN
- 1041-1135
1941-0174
This letter demonstrates high-power analog radio-over-fiber transmission using a 1 km hollow-core photonic bandgap fiber. We have succeeded in achieving high transmission characteristics even at input analog radio-over-fiber signal power exceeding 32 dBm in single- and four-channel transmissions. Owing to the ultra-low nonlinearity of the fiber, superior transmission characteristics have been achieved compared to those of conventional silica-core optical fibers.