Head-end circuit and remote antenna unit and hybrid wired/wireless network system and transceiving method using thereof

• US 8,422,883 B2
• Filed: 10/09/2009
• Issued: 04/16/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 07/29/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
• Inventors: Chow, Chi-Wai, Chi, Sien, Yeh, Chien-Hung
• Primary Examiner(s): SINGH, DALZID E
• Application Number:
  US12/576,304
• Publication Number:
  US 20110026932A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,285 Days
• Field of Search: 398 66- 68, 398 70- 72, 398/74, 398/115, 398/185
• US Class Current: 398/115
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 10/25759 Details of the reception of RF signal or the optical conversion before the optical fibre

Abstract

A head-end circuit comprises first and second continuous light sources, first and second modulators. The first and the second continuous light sources provide first and second optical signals respectively corresponding to first wavelength and second wavelength, which is different from the first wavelength. The first modulator modulates the first optical signal based on first clock signal to generate an optical clock signal. The second modulator modulates the second optical signal based on downlink data to generate optical downlink data with the carrier of the second optical signal. The optical clock signal and the optical down link data are outputted to a remote antenna unit via first fiber path.

Claims

1. A remote antenna unit (RAU) applied in a hybrid wired/wireless network system for receiving an optical clock signal and optical downlink data via a first fiber path, the RAU comprising:

a first splitter for splitting the optical downlink data into a first part of the optical downlink data and a second part of the optical downlink data;

a modulator for re-modulating the first part of the optical downlink data according to uplink baseband data to generate and transmit optical uplink data to a head-end circuit, wherein the optical uplink data and the optical downlink data are transmitted via a same optical carrier; and

a processing circuit for receiving the second part of the optical downlink data and the optical clock signal and accordingly generating a microwave band electrical signal and a baseband optical signal.

2. The RAU according to claim 1, wherein the processing circuit comprises:

a second splitter for splitting the optical clock signal into a first part of the optical clock signal and a second part of the optical clock signal;

a first receiving circuit for generating a electrical clock signal in response to the first part of the optical clock signal; and

a frequency multiplier for multiplying a frequency of the electrical clock signal to obtain a frequency-multiplied electrical clock signal.

3. The RAU according to claim 2, wherein the processing circuit further comprises:

a mixer for generating the uplink baseband data by mixing the frequency-multiplied electrical clock signal and uplink radio frequency data.

4. The RAU according to claim 2, wherein the processing circuit further comprises:

a delay interferometer for demodulating the second part of the optical downlink data to generate intensity modulated optical downlink data;

a beating circuit for beating the intensity modulated optical downlink data and the second part of the optical clock signal to generate an electrical microwave signal;

a first filtering circuit for filtering the electrical microwave signal to obtain the microwave band electrical signal; and

a second filtering circuit for filtering the electrical microwave signal to obtain the baseband optical signal.

5. A hybrid wired/wireless network system, comprising:

a head-end circuit, comprising;

a first receiving circuit;

a first continuous light source and a second continuous light source for respectively providing a first optical signal and a second optical signal, which are respectively corresponding to a first wavelength and a second wavelength different from each other;

a first modulator for modulating the first optical signal according to a first clock signal to generate an optical clock signal with the first optical signal as a carrier wave; and

a second modulator for modulating the second optical signal according to downlink data to generate optical downlink data with the second optical signal as a carrier wave; and

a remote antenna unit (RAU) comprising;

a first splitter for splitting the optical downlink data into a first part of the optical downlink data and a second part of the optical downlink data;

a third modulator for re-modulating the first part of the optical downlink data according to uplink baseband data to generate and transmit optical uplink data to the first receiving circuit, wherein the optical uplink data and the optical downlink data are transmitted via a same optical carrier; and

a processing circuit for receiving the second part of the optical downlink data and the optical clock signal and accordingly generating a microwave band electrical signal and a baseband optical signal.

6. The hybrid wired/wireless network system according to claim 5, wherein the processing circuit further comprises:

a second splitter for splitting the optical clock signal into a first part of the optical clock signal and a second part of the optical clock signal;

a first receiving circuit for generating a electrical clock signal in response to the first part of the optical clock signal; and

a frequency multiplier for multiplying a frequency of the electrical clock signal to obtain a frequency-multiplied electrical clock signal.

7. The hybrid wired/wireless network system according to claim 6, wherein the processing circuit further comprises:

a mixer for generating the uplink baseband data by mixing the frequency-multiplied electrical clock signal and uplink radio frequency data.

8. The hybrid wired/wireless network system according to claim 6, wherein the processing circuit further comprises:

a delay interferometer for demodulating the second part of the optical downlink data to generate intensity modulated optical downlink data;

a beating circuit for beating the intensity modulated optical downlink data and the second part of the optical clock signal to generate an electrical microwave signal;

a first filtering circuit for filtering the electrical microwave signal to obtain the microwave band electrical signal; and

a second filtering circuit for filtering the electrical microwave signal to obtain the baseband optical signal.

9. The hybrid wired/wireless network system according to claim 5, wherein the first modulator is a Mach-Zehnder modulator (MZM).

10. The hybrid wired/wireless network system according to claim 5, wherein the second modulator is a phase modulator and the optical downlink data are modulated with differential phase shift keying (DPSK) scheme.

11. The hybrid wired/wireless network system according to claim 5, wherein the optical clock signal has a response with double sideband carrier suppressed.

12. A data transceiving method applied in a remote antenna unit (RAU) of a hybrid wired/wireless network system for receiving optical downlink data, the data transceiving method comprising:

receiving an optical clock signal and the optical downlink data via a first fiber path;

splitting the optical downlink data into a first part of the optical downlink data and a second part of the optical downlink data;

re-modulating the first part of the optical downlink data according to uplink baseband data to generate optical uplink data;

transmitting the optical uplink data to a head-end circuit via a second fiber path to carry out operations of uplink data transmission, wherein the optical uplink data and the optical downlink data are transmitted on a same optical carrier wave;

beating an intensity modulated second part of the optical downlink data and a first part of the optical clock signal to obtain an electrical microwave signal; and

filtering the electrical microwave signal to obtain and output a microwave band electrical signal and a baseband optical signal, so as to carry out operations of downlink data transmission.

13. The data transceiving method according to claim 12, further comprising:

demodulating the second part of the optical downlink data to accordingly obtain the intensity modulated second part of the optical downlink data.

14. The data transceiving method according to claim 12, further comprising:

splitting the optical clock signal into the first part of the optical clock signal and a second part of the optical clock signal.

15. The data transceiving method according to claim 14, further comprising:

generating an electrical clock signal in response to the second part of the optical clock signal;

performing frequency-multiplying operation on the electrical clock signal to obtain a frequency-multiplied electrical clock signal;

wirelessly receiving uplink radio frequency data; and

mixing the frequency-multiplied electrical clock signal and the uplink radio frequency data to obtain the uplink baseband data.