Ultra-wideband over fiber for broadband wireless access

该项目是欧洲委员会2006年在信息社会技术第六框架方案下批准的欧洲项目“无线/光子学宽带接入结构和欧洲优势整合”的一部分，目的是为下一代宽带接入应用开发新技术。作为唯一来自加拿大的合作伙伴，我们将集中精力研究和开发用于宽带无线接入的创新UWB-over-Fiber技术。UWB技术在2002年被FCC批准为非授权使用，近年来成为研究的热点，在短距离高吞吐量无线通信和传感器网络方面引起了人们极大的兴趣。这种短距离无线网络可以主要在室内环境中以独立模式运行，几乎不存在与固定有线网络或无线广域基础设施的集成。为了在不同的网络之间提供不间断的服务，并最终实现在任何时间和任何地点的高速率数据访问，一种解决方案是将UWB与光纤分配技术相结合，这是一个称为UWB over Fiber的新领域。在这个项目中，我们将研究UWB-over-Fiber架构和技术，以在光域中产生和分发UWB信号。

This project is part of the European project "InfraStructures for broadband access in wireless/photonics and Integration of Strengths in Europe", approved in 2006 by the European Commission under the 6th Framework Programme of the Information Society Technologies, to develop new technologies for next-generation broadband access applications. As the only partner from Canada, we will concentrate our efforts on the investigation and development of innovative UWB-over-fiber technologies for broadband wireless access. UWB, approved by FCC in 2002 for unlicensed use, has been a hot area recently and has attracted great interests for short-range high-throughput wireless communication and sensor networks. Such short-range wireless networks can operate mainly in indoor environments in a standalone mode, with a nearly nonexistent integration into the fixed wired networks or wireless wide-area infrastructures. To offer availability of undisrupted service across different networks and eventually achieve high-rate data access at any time and from any place, a solution is to combine the UWB with fiber distribution technology, a new area called UWB over fiber. In this project, we will investigate UWB-over-fiber architectures and techniques to generated and distribute UWB signals in the optical domain.