Optical Fiber Polarization Interferometer for Performance Improvement in Radio-Over-Fiber Systems

Yi Dong, Zhaohui Li, Xiangqing Tian, Qijie Wang, Hao He, Chao Lu, Yixin Wang, Weisheng Hu, Tee Hiang Cheng

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Abstract

An extinction ratio tunable optical fiber polarization interferometer (OFPI) is proposed and implemented to increase the optical modulation depth in radio-over-fiber (RoF) systems by suppressing the optical carrier power. The extinction ratio of the OFPI can be simply tuned by adjusting the polarization state of the launched RoF signal. Experimental results illustrate that the receiver sensitivity and dynamic range of RoF systems are greatly improved using the proposed scheme.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1236-1238
Number of pages3
JournalIEEE Photonics Technology Letters
Volume19
Issue number16
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2007
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Carrier-to-sideband ratios (CSRs)
  • optical fiber polarization interferometer (OFPI)
  • radio-over-fiber (RoF)

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