Impact of the dispersion-induced power fading on the fiber transmission performance of OFDM-UWB radio signals

Author

Alves, T. ; Cartaxo, A.

Author_Institution

Group of Res. on Opt. Fibre Telecommun. Syst., Inst. Super. Tecnico, Lisbon

fYear

2008

fDate

16-20 Dec. 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

The performance degradation of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing ultra-wide band (UWB) radio signals transmission over standard single-mode fiber is analyzed through numerical simulation. A significant performance variation along the standardized UWB band due to the fiber dispersion-induced power fading is shown. As a consequence, a periodic dependence of the optical signal-to-noise ratio degradation on the fiber length and on the RF carrier frequency is observed.

Keywords

OFDM modulation; numerical analysis; radio-over-fibre; ultra wideband communication; OFDM-UWB radio signal; RF carrier frequency; fiber dispersion-induced power fading; fiber length; fiber transmission performance; numerical simulation; optical signal-to-noise ratio degradation; orthogonal frequency division multiplexing; single-mode fiber; ultra-wide band radio signals transmission; Bit error rate; Degradation; Fading; OFDM; Optical attenuators; Optical filters; Optical noise; Optical receivers; RF signals; Signal to noise ratio;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Conference, 2008. APMC 2008. Asia-Pacific

Conference_Location

Macau

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2641-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2642-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APMC.2008.4958105

Filename

4958105