WUHAN, China (October 24, 2014) - Wuhan Optoelectronics Forum No. 88 was successfully held in Auditorium A101 at Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics (WNLO) in the morning of October 24.
To meet the rapidly growing demand of gigabits wireless access applications, sub-THz or millimeter wave (MMW) carriers in W-band (75-110 GHz) or above are essential for obtaining the necessary broad transmission bandwidth. Thanks to the almost unlimited bandwidth and very low propagation loss in optical fiber, an efficient and cost-effective way to distribute synchronized photonic MMW signals from the central office to multiple base stations is a radio-over-fiber (RoF) communication system. In this paper, we will review our recent work on Photonic Wireless communication Link at 100 GHz or 0.1 THz. Key technologies are photonic MMW sources and photonic MMW transmitters. Wireless data transmission at a data rate beyond 20-Gb/s via bias modulation of such novel device has been successfully achieved for both downlink and uplink. We have also demonstrated an optical ultra-wide band Impulse-Radio Fiber-to-the-antenna (UWB-IR FTTA) system for in-building and in-home applications, operating from 75 to 110 GHz.
Ci-Ling Pan is Vice President for Research, Tsing Hua Chair Professor, Department of Physics, National Tsing Hua University (NTHU), Hsinchu. He also holds joint appointment at the Institute of Photonics Technologies of NTHU. Prof. Pan taught at National Chiao Tung University, 1981-2009. He also held visiting professorship at Osaka University and Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2004 and 2008, respectively. In the past decade, the main foci of Prof. Pan’s research activities have been Ultrafast and THz Photonics. Recent research highlights include pioneering the field of liquid crystal THz photonics, femtosoeocnd-laser recrystallization and activation of silicon for TFT as well as novel THz generators and detectors. The latter were used in diverse applications such as diagnostics of technologically important materials for photovoltaics, assessing burn trauma and optical-network-compatible W-band (100 GHz or 0.1 THz) wireless communication Link at a data rate beyond 20 Gbit/s. Prof. Pan received numerous awards for his accomplishments. He is a Fellow of APS, IEEE, OSA and SPIE, an Academian of the Asia-Pacific Academy of Materials (APAM). Currently, he also serves as a Traveling Lecturer of OSA and member of Commission C17 (Quantum Electronics) of IUPAP.
