Performance of Transmission of Ultra Wideband Signals Using Radio-over-Fiber System

Author

Lim, C.S. ; Yee, M.L. ; Ong, L.C.

Author_Institution

Inst. for Infocomm Res., Singapore

fYear

2006

fDate

38869

Firstpage

250

Lastpage

253

Abstract

The performance of ultra wideband (UWB) signals transmission using radio-over-fiber (ROF) technology is analyzed. UWB signals are directly modulated onto the optical carrier of wavelength 1550 nm for single mode fiber (SMF) system and 850 nm for multimode fiber (MMF) system. Bit error rates (BER) as a function of SMF and MMF lengths are presented. The ranges of SMF length are 0 to 5.5 km and 25.2 km to 31 km and 0 to 700 m for MMF. By varying the attenuation between the UWB transmitter and ROF modulator and between the photo-detector and UWB receiver, BER of less than 10^-9 is achieved for SMF system. Reliable transmission of UWB signals using ROF technology is thus demonstrated. MMF system achieves a BER of 10^-9 for lengths less than 450 m

Keywords

error statistics; optical modulation; photodetectors; radio receivers; radio transmitters; radio-over-fibre; ultra wideband communication; 0 to 5.5 km; 0 to 700 m; 1550 nm; 25.2 to 31 km; 850 nm; BER; MMF system; ROF modulator; SMF system; UWB transmitter; bit error rate; multimode fiber; photo-detector; radio-over-fiber technology; receiver; single mode fiber; ultra wideband signal transmission; Attenuation; Bit error rate; Optical attenuators; Optical modulation; Optical receivers; Optical transmitters; Performance analysis; Radio transmitters; Signal analysis; Ultra wideband technology; bit error rates; radio-over-fiber; ultra wideband;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

ITS Telecommunications Proceedings, 2006 6th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Chengdu

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9587-5

Electronic_ISBN

0-7803-9587-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ITST.2006.288866

Filename

4068577