Patent ID: 8358933

Claim:
An optical wireless network comprising: an optical coupler for diverting received millimeter-wave signals comprised of an optical carrier and second order sidebands into multiple transmission paths; a downstream optical path being one of the multiple transmission paths and including an optical filter for filtering passing through the optical carrier with a single sideband, a converter for converting the optical carrier and single sideband to a corresponding electrical signal for amplification and broadcast transmission from an antenna; and an upstream path being one of the multiple transmission paths and having a filter for passing through the optical carrier only from the millimeter wave signals and an intensity modulator driven by data received over the antenna to modulate the optical carrier for optical transmission to a receiving destination, wherein the received millimeter-wave signals are generated by an intensity modulator biased at a top peak output power when a local oscillator LO signal used to generate the millimeter wave signals is removed.