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A radio-over-fiber system with photonics generated OFDM signals by using directly modulated laser

  • L. Chen*
  • , J. Lu
  • , J. He
  • , Z. Dong
  • , S. Wen
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Hunan University

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Abstract

We have experimentally demonstrated a radio-over-fiber system transmitting 2.5 Gbt/s orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) signals carried by 40 GHz millimetre -wave. The 40 GHz optical millimeter wave signals were generated by a directed modulation laser driven by the 2.5 Gb/s electrical OFDM signals carried by 20 GHz RF signals. The power penalty is less than 1 dB power penalty at bit error rate of 10-5 after transmission over 20 km standard single mode fiber.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)971-973
Number of pages3
JournalMicrowave and Optical Technology Letters
Volume51
Issue number4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Apr 2009
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Direct-modulation DFB laser
  • Optical millimeter wave (mm-wave)
  • Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM)
  • Radio-over-fiber (ROF)

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