Abstract
An experimental investigation is presented that demonstrates how optical
tunable filtering and polarization demultiplexing can be used to realize
reconfigurable remote access nodes (RAN) in the context of future access
networks that integrate diverge services. In particular, transmission of
60-GHz radio-over-fiber and baseband signals is successfully shown
considering two reconfigurable RAN architectures. One based on optical
tunable filtering and polarization demultiplexing and another one based only
on optical tunable filtering. The perceived network architecture is that of
multilevel ring/bus configuration and a two-RAN experiment shows the
robustness of polarization multiplexing/demultiplexing in such a
reconfigurable access network solution. The assets of physical-layer
reconfigurability are discussed.
© 2010 IEEE
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