Integrated Wireless-pon access Network Architectures Milos Milosavljevic

Chapter 3
Figure 
At the central office (CO), the optical mm
efficient all optical approach. After being transmitted over an optical network they are detected 
at the home gateway and distributed to each room. The key enabling technologies for optical 
mm-wave generation and detection are 
considered convergence of WiFi, WiMAX and millimetre wave signals on a common 
architectural platform based on optical interleaves to separate these frequency bands at the base 
station with a single light source in the central 
high deployment cost and
increased exponentially with the number of supported base stations. 
Using a similar philosophy, a different research group has been focusing on a network 
architecture based on a optical frequency
up-conversion [9]. This is achieved by periodic 
whose wavelength is continuously 
selected by the bandpass filter
Optical and Wireless PHY Integration 
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Figure 3-1: Generic architecture for mm-wave transmission 
, the optical mm-wave signals are generated and mixed by using 
efficient all optical approach. After being transmitted over an optical network they are detected 
at the home gateway and distributed to each room. The key enabling technologies for optical 
wave generation and detection are reviewed in [7]. In addition, some studies have 
considered convergence of WiFi, WiMAX and millimetre wave signals on a common 
based on optical interleaves to separate these frequency bands at the base 
station with a single light source in the central office [8]. However, this approach could lead to 
high deployment cost and network complexity as the number of components required is 
increased exponentially with the number of supported base stations.
similar philosophy, a different research group has been focusing on a network 
optical frequency multiplication (OFM) technique for mm
This is achieved by periodic filtering and photo-detection of an opt
whose wavelength is continuously swept by the low-frequency RF signal
selected by the bandpass filter.