Experimental performance analysis of MB-OFDM Ultra-Wideband Radio-Over-Fiber signals in the 60-GHz band using a commercially-available DFB laser

Author

Omomukuyo, Oluyemi ; Thakur, Manoj P. ; Mitchell, John E.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Electr. Eng., Univ. Coll. London, London, UK

fYear

2012

fDate

2-5 July 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

We present an experimental analysis of the performance of Multiband-Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (MB-OFDM) Ultra-Wideband (UWB) in the 60-GHz radio band distributed using Radio-Over-Fiber (RoF) techniques. To reduce cost, direct modulation of a commercially-available distributed feedback (DFB) laser is used with optical up-conversion achieved with a Mach-Zehnder modulator (MZM). The impact of various parameters including laser bias current, temperature, UWB drive power, local oscillator (LO) power, fiber transmission and the received optical power are investigated. System performance is evaluated at a bit rate of 3.84 Gb/s using Error Vector Magnitude (EVM) measurements as a performance metric. We evaluate the different effects of these parameters on system performance and demonstrate the optimum values and the limitations imposed in fiber distribution.

Keywords

OFDM modulation; distributed feedback lasers; optical fibre networks; radio-over-fibre; ultra wideband communication; DFB laser; EVM measurement; MB-OFDM ultrawideband radio-over-fiber signals; MZM; Mach-Zehnder modulator; RoF technique; UWB drive power; bit rate 3.84 Gbit/s; distributed feedback laser; error vector magnitude measurement; fiber distribution; fiber transmission; frequency 60 GHz; laser bias current; local oscillator power; multiband-orthogonal frequency division multiplexing ultrawideband; optical power; optical up-conversion; Integrated optics; Optical amplifiers; Optical attenuators; Optical fibers; Optical filters; Power lasers; 60-GHz; direct feedback laser (DFB); fiber-optic communications; multiband-orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (MB-OFDM); radio-over-fiber (RoF); ultra-wideband (UWB);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2012 14th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Coventry

ISSN

2161-2056

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2228-7

Electronic_ISBN

2161-2056

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2012.6254424

Filename

6254424