Abstract

In future wireless broadband communication systems in the 60-GHz band the optical fiber is an attractive means for feeding the base stations of the wireless network. Therefore, several methods were proposed.^1-4 In this paper we show, to our knowledge for the first time, the error-free (BER ≤10⁻¹⁰) reception of a 155 Mbit/s signal transmitted over 1 km of optical fiber and upconverted to 58 GHz by optoelectronic conversion using a mode-locked laser (MLL).

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