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To establish updated performance boundaries for radio-frequency-over-fiber links and outline specific device design requirements to approach these theoretical limits.

February 1, 2006IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Limits on the performance of RF-over-fiber links and their impact on device design

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CCC.H. CoxPhotonic Systems (United States)EAEdward I. AckermanPhotonic Systems (United States)GBG.E. BettsUniversity of California, San Diego

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Review evaluates performance limits in RF-over-fiber links, highlighting required advances in laser, modulator, and photodetector design.

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To establish updated performance boundaries for radio-frequency-over-fiber links and outline specific device design requirements to approach these theoretical limits.
Updated analytical limits on the RF transmission performance of optical communication links.
Surveyed device-level developments in directly modulated cascade lasers, injection-locked lasers, electroabsorption modulators, and high-saturation photodetectors.
Direct modulation using cascade lasers achieved link gain exceeding 0 dB, while injection-locked lasers reached modulation responses up to 40 GHz at 1300 nm and 1550 nm.
Electroabsorption modulators demonstrated switching voltages down to 0.36 V, optical power tolerance up to 60 mW, and bandwidths up to 50 GHz, though not simultaneously within a single device.
High-speed photodetectors achieved linear saturation currents of 90 mA at 20 GHz and 50 mA at 55 GHz.

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Cox et al. (2006) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a6f4a455d37378ac1dc5ce4 https://doi.org/10.1109/tmtt.2005.863818

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