RT Conference Proceedings T1 Temperature Impairment Characterization in Radio-Over-Multimode Fiber Systems A1 Vázquez García, María Carmen A1 Sánchez Montero, David Ricardo AB An emerging theme in next-generation access research includes seamless wireline-wireless convergence addressed by Radio-over-Fiber (RoF) technologies. Optical cabling solutions offer th e possibility for semi-transparent transport through the access network microwave to mm-wave radio carriers commonly employed for creating high-capacity picocell wireless networks, attending present demands from the wireless technologies, with portable/mobile devices converging with photonics. Advanced RoF techniques can efficiently generate and transport such carriers, and deliver them to simplified antenna stations or radio access points (RAPs). Thus, they can convey high data rates in comprehensive modulation formats on multiple-GHz carriers in MMF networks. Selective mode-launching schemes combined with the use of narrow linewidth optical sources are experimentally demonstrated to enable broadband RF, microwave and mm-wave transmission in short- and middle-reach distances over silica-based multimode optical fibers (MMFs); and are rev iewed in this pap er. However, arbitrary operating conditions, such as the temperature dependence in the fiber link, impose a great challenge for the extension of the RoMMF technology. Temperature impairment ch aracterization is analyzed over the broadband transmission bands that are present, under certain operating link conditions, in the frequency response performance of MMF to support multiple GHz carrier delivering schemes, thus contributing to fault link prevention. PB SPIE- The International Society for Optical Engineering SN 9780819489258 SN 0277-786X YR 2012 FD 2012-01 LK https://hdl.handle.net/10016/22285 UL https://hdl.handle.net/10016/22285 LA eng NO The proceeding at: SPIE Photonics West 2012.Broadband Access Communication Technologies VI., took place in 2012, January 21-26, in San Francisco, California (USA). The event Web site at: http://spie.org/conferences-and-exhibitions/past-events/past-conferences-and-exhibitions/past-events/photonics-west/photonics-west-2012 DS e-Archivo RD 15 sept. 2024