Novel Enabling Technologies for Convergence of Optical and Wireless Access Networks

Advanced enabling technologies for optical wireless integration are discussed. These enabling technologies include new schemes to generate low-cost optical millimeter-wave signal, ROF network configuration compatible with WDM-PON, and wavelength reuse. We will also report a test-bed for ROF network providing over 2.5 Gbit/s bandwidth for transmission wireless and wired data and HTDV signals.

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