Energy-Autonomous Picocell Remote Antenna Unit for Radio-Over-Fiber System Using the Multiservices Concept

The study reported in this letter deals with the extension of the multiservices concept to radio-over-fiber systems with energy-autonomous picocell remote antenna units. Continuous-power, radio-frequency, and digital signals have been combined in a single multimode fiber for the first time. The results clearly demonstrate no impairment of the optically powered remote antenna unit compared to an electrically powered version. The proposed system complies with the classical baseband Ethernet high-data-rate network (10 GbE bit error rate 10-12). The measured error vector magnitude for the radio-frequency (IEEE802.11g) signal transmission through the designed system stays around 2%, including both the optical transmission over 100-m OM3 multimode fiber and a wireless coverage of 5 m.

[1]  J.P. von der Weid,et al.  Fully powered-over-fibre remote antenna unit , 2008, 2008 International Topical Meeting on Microwave Photonics jointly held with the 2008 Asia-Pacific Microwave Photonics Conference.

[2]  A. Nkansah,et al.  Optically Powered Remote Units for Radio-Over-Fiber Systems , 2008, Journal of Lightwave Technology.

[3]  A. Nkansah,et al.  Optical Powering of Remote Units for Radio over Fiber Links , 2007, Microwave Photonics, 2007 Interntional Topical Meeting on.

[4]  C. Loyez,et al.  Review of Glass and Polymer Multimode Fibers Used in a Wimedia Ultrawideband MB-OFDM Radio Over Fiber System , 2009, Journal of Lightwave Technology.

[5]  Jean-Pierre Vilcot,et al.  Multi-service applications on high modal bandwidth glass multimode fibre , 2009 .

[6]  Adnan Harb,et al.  Energy harvesting: State-of-the-art , 2011 .

[7]  Jean-Pierre Vilcot,et al.  Potential of the high modal bandwidth OM4 glass multimode fiber for the multi-services concept , 2011 .

[8]  T. O'Donnell,et al.  Energy scavenging for long-term deployable wireless sensor networks. , 2008, Talanta.

[9]  C. Lethien,et al.  An optically powered radio over fiber remote unit using wavelength division multiplexing , 2008, 2008 International Topical Meeting on Microwave Photonics jointly held with the 2008 Asia-Pacific Microwave Photonics Conference.