Experimental demonstration of a downlink multi-channel Hybrid Fiber-Radio using digitized RF-over-fiber technique

We propose an efficient transmission scheme for Hybrid Fiber-Radio (HFR) system using a digitized RF-over-fiber (DRoF) technique, which can simplify frequency translation functions and supports multiple wireless services. We experimentally demonstrate a DRoF-HFR downlink for the transmission of GSM, UMTS and WiMAX services, with a minimum sampling rate of 50 MHz and an overall optical data rate of 400 Mb/s. Experimental results show that the amount of amplification required for the image at the desired wireless carrier frequency becomes significant when the image resides in the 20^th or higher order Nyquist zone.