Impact of joint effect of Statistical fading and optical non-linearities on the performance of OFDM based Radio-over-fiber transmission system

Author

Chandra, S. ; Gangopadhyay, R.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Technol., Gov. of India, New Delhi, India

fYear

2009

fDate

14-16 Dec. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

The performance of an OFDM based Radio-over-fiber (RoF) transmission system in the presence of simultaneous effects of Statistical fading at the wireless interface and optical non-linearities at the fiber transmission path has been investigated. Our investigation shows that BER performance of the OFDM-RoF system is severely degraded in the presence of joint effects of fading and optical non-linearities. The analysis also reveals that accurate estimation of BER performance of the system requires consideration of interplay of the effects of fading and optical non-linearities compared to the situation where only either statistical fading or fiber non-linearities are considered.

Keywords

OFDM modulation; error statistics; radio-over-fibre; OFDM; bit error rate; error vector magnitude; fiber nonlinearities; joint effect; optical nonlinearities; radio-over-fiber transmission system; statistical fading; wireless interface; Bit error rate; Fading; Fiber nonlinear optics; Nonlinear optics; OFDM; Optical crosstalk; Optical devices; Optical distortion; Optical modulation; Phase modulation; Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM); Radio-over-fiber (RoF); error vector magnitude (EVM); fading; optical nonlinearities bit error rate (BER);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computers and Devices for Communication, 2009. CODEC 2009. 4th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kolkata

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5073-2

Type

conf

Filename

5407208