Experimental Demonstration for Delivering 1-Gb/s OFDM Signals over 80-km SSMF in 40-GHz Radio-over-Fiber Access Systems

Author

Zhensheng Jia ; Jianjun Yu ; Dayou Qian ; Ellinas, G. ; Gee-Kung Chang

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA, USA

fYear

2008

fDate

24-28 Feb. 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

We experimentally show the first demonstration of a super-broadband radio-over-fiber system transmitting 1-Gb/s OFDM signals on 40-GHz millimeter-wave carriers. It is achieved over 80-km SSMF without dispersion compensation with less than 0.5-dB power penalty at BER of 10^-6.

Keywords

OFDM modulation; error statistics; microwave photonics; optical communication equipment; radio-over-fibre; BER; OFDM signal transmission; SSMF; bit rate 1 Gbit/s; dispersion compensation; distance 80 km; frequency 40 GHz; millimeter-wave carriers; mm-wave OFDM-ROF system; power penalty; standard single mode fiber transmission; super-broadband radio-over-fiber system; Bit error rate; Chromatic dispersion; Millimeter wave technology; OFDM modulation; Optical distortion; Optical modulation; Optical receivers; Quadrature phase shift keying; Signal generators; USA Councils;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber communication/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2008. OFC/NFOEC 2008. Conference on

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-55752-856-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OFC.2008.4528145

Filename

4528145