Ultra-high Frequency Linear Fiber Optic Systems

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Lau, Kam Y. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
• Subjects: Physics.; Electromagnetism.; Physical optics.; Engineering.; Microwaves.; Telecommunication.; Applied Optics, Optoelectronics, Optical Devices.; Electromagnetism, Optics and Lasers.; Engineering, general.; Microwaves, RF and Optical Engineering.; Communications Engineering, Networks.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-49906-0

Designed for a one-semester course on fiber-optics systems and communication links, this book provides a concise but rigorous treatment of the theory and practice of analog (linear) fiber-optics links and systems that constitute the foundation of Hybrid Fiber Coax infrastructure in present-day CATV...

Table of Contents:

• Part I: Physics of high speed lasers
• Basic Description of Laser Diode Dynamics by Spatially Averaged Rate Equations  Conditions of Validity
• Basic "Small Signal" Modulation Response
• Distortions in Direct Modulation of Laser Diodes
• Direct Modulation beyond X-band by Operation at High Optical Power Density
• Improvement in Direct Modulation Speed by Enhanced Differential Optical Gain and Quantum Confinement
• Dynamic Longitudinal Mode Spectral Behaviour of Laser Diodes under Direct High-Frequency Modulation
• Signal-Induced Noise in Fiber Links
• Part II: Direct Modulation of Semiconductor Lasers beyond Relaxation Oscillation
• Illustration of Resonant Modulation
• Resonant Modulation of Monolithic Laser Diodes at mm-wave Frequencies
• Performance of Resonant Modulation in the mm-wave Frequency Range  Multi-subcarrier Modulation
• Resonant Modulation of Single-Contact Lasers
• Part III: Fiber Transmission Effects, System Perspectives and Innovative Approach to Broadband mm-wave Subcarrier Optical Signals
• Transmission Demonstrations
• Application of Linear Fiber Links to Wireless Signal Distribution  A High-Level System Perspective
• Improvements in Baseband Fiber Optic Transmission by Superposition of High-Frequency Microwave Modulation
• Mm-wave Signal Transport over Optical Fiber Links by "Feedforward Modulation"
• Notes on RF Link Metrics
• Ultrahigh Frequency Photodiodes and Receivers
• High-Frequency Optical Modulators
• Modulation Response of Superluminiscent Lasers
• Broadband Microwave Fiber-Optic Links with RF Phase Control for Phased-Array Antennas.