Frequency division multiplexing - Frequency shift keying - Local area networks - Semiconductor lasers;
D O I:
10.1109/68.196018
中图分类号:
TM [电工技术];
TN [电子技术、通信技术];
学科分类号:
0808 ;
0809 ;
摘要:
We demonstrate the use of self-pulsating laser diodes as fast-tunable (less-than-or-equal-to 1 ns), frequency-shift keyed (FSK) microwave subcarrier transmitters in local-area subcarrier frequency-division multiple access (SFDMA) lightwave networks. We show that by using commercially available compact-disk self-pulsating lasers, a network supporting four users each transmitting at 150 Mb/s FSK is feasible, and can be extended to 12 FSK subcarrier channels at 200 Mb/s if the self-pulsating frequency is extended to 12 GHz.