Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering

Microwave/RF Sub-carrier Signals Multiplexing for Optical Communication Systems

Nick Richardson

Abstract:
This thesis is based on the project involving the design and prototyping of a 3 channel subcarrier multiplexing system.  The thesis specifications consist of designing a SCM system to be used in conjunction with optical communications.

Design and testing of the thesis can be broken up into five major parts – the design and construction of the five modules of a subcarrier multiplexing system: mixer, voltage controlled oscillator, bandpass filter, amplifier and power combiner.  A printed circuit board was designed to connect these modules together with minimal stray capacitance and inductance.

The mixer, voltage controlled oscillator, power combiner and amplifier performed adequately displaying minimal losses, and met the requirements of the thesis.  The bandpass filter however, displayed no signs of directive filtering and produced a loss of around 20dB.

Complete thesis:
Thesisreport.PDF

Conference Paper:
Conference Paper.pdf

Additional material:
sch   pcb   Datasheets

About the Author


Please Email me at s341658@student.uq.edu.au