Abstract
The transimission performance of on-off keying (OOK) and orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) signals in radio-over-fiber (ROF) system is experimentally and theoretically studied. The theoretical results show that OFDM signal is almost not affected by inter-symbol interference (ISI), only with the phase changed, where as OOK signal is seriously affected by ISI. The experiment results show that the eye diagram of 2.5 Gb/s OOK signal is closed when transmitting over 60 km in single mode fiber (SMF), and its bit error rate (BER) can only reach 10-3. The constellation of OFDM is clear when ttransmitting over 130 km with BER of 10-4. All theoretical and experimental results show that the performance of OFDM is better than that of OOK in ROF system.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 465-470 |
Number of pages | 6 |
Journal | Zhongguo Jiguang/Chinese Journal of Lasers |
Volume | 37 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Feb 2010 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Millimeter-wave
- On-off keying
- Optical carrier suppression
- Optical communications
- Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing
- Radio-over-fiber system