Numerical Analysis of All-Optical Microwave Mixing and Bandpass Filtering in an RoF Link

In this paper, all-optical signal processors that perform both microwave mixing and bandpass filtering in a radio-over-fiber (RoF) link are presented. The key device is a Mach-Zehnder modulator (MZM) which performs all-optical microwave mixing. An up-converted microwave signal is obtained and other unwanted frequency components are suppressed at the end of the fiber span.

Authors:

• S. Khosroabadi
• M. R. Salehi

Keywords:

• Microwave mixing
• bandpass filtering
• all-optical
• signal processing
• MZM.

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