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IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques
Volume 48 Number 12, December 2000

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An Approach to Single Optical Component Antenna Base Stations for Broad-Band Millimeter-Wave Fiber-Radio Access Systems

Ken-Ichi Kitayama, Senior Member, IEEE Andreas Stöhr, Member, IEEE Toshiaki Kuri, Member, IEEE Robert Heinzelmann, Dieter Jäger, Senior Member, IEEE and Yoshiro Takahashi

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Abstract:

To realize a cost-effective and practical antenna base station (BS) for 60-GHz-band millimeter-wave fiber-radio access systems, an approach to a single optical component BS is presented in this paper. The external modulation technique will allow to replace the pair of a photodetector (PD) and a laser diode with an external modulator at the BS by an optical transceiver. Two system architectures using different types of optical transceivers are studied in detail: one employs an electroabsorption transceiver (EAT), and the other employs an electroabsorption transceiver/mixer (EATX). The EAT serves simultaneously as a PD and an external light modulator in 60-GHz-band millimeter-wave region. The EATX furthermore acts as an IF-to-RF upconverter and an RF-to-IF downconverter. It will be shown that both system architectures have good prospects to realize cost-effective fiber-radio access systems.

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