Analysis of OFDM signal through optical fiber for Radio-over-Fiber transmission

Author

Dhivagar, B. ; Ganesh Madhan, M. ; Fernando, Xavier

Author_Institution

Anna Univ. Chromepet, Chennai

fYear

2007

fDate

22-24 Aug. 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

8

Abstract

Radio-over-fiber (RoF) has emerged as a potential candidate for the transport of microwave, cellular and wireless broadband signals for coverage extension, antenna remoting and other high speed applications. OFDM has found its way as wireless standard for LAN and MAN systems due to its spectral efficiency and interference rejection capability. In this paper, a single mode fiber optic link is modeled for the transmission of OFDM based WLAN signals. A rate equation model was utilized for modeling the 1550 nm DFB laser source based transmitter. The BER performance of the WLAN signal transmission through the fiber optic link is examined both in the forward and reverse direction. Further the effect of wireless channel along with the fiber dispersion is also determined.

Keywords

OFDM modulation; distributed feedback lasers; error statistics; optical fibre LAN; optical fibre dispersion; optical modulation; optical transmitters; radio-over-fibre; wireless LAN; wireless channels; BER; DFB laser; LAN; MAN; OFDM signal analysis; WLAN signal transmission; fiber dispersion; fiber optic link; interference rejection capability; radio-over-fiber transmission; rate equation model; single mode fiber optic link; spectral efficiency; wavelength 1550 nm; wireless channel; Broadband antennas; Equations; Fiber lasers; Interference; Local area networks; Microwave antennas; OFDM; Optical fibers; Signal analysis; Wireless LAN; DFB Laser; Fiber optic link; OFDM; Radio-over-Fiber (RoF); Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Access Networks & Workshops, 2007. AccessNets '07. Second International Conference on

Conference_Location

Ottawa, Ont.

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1150-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1150-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ACCESSNETS.2007.4447145

Filename

4447145