Performance comparsion between on-off keying and orthogonal frequency division multiplexing signals in 40 GHz radio-over-fiber systems

Wenpei Wang*, Lin Chen, Ze Dong, Zizheng Cao, Jia Lu, Jianjun Yu

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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 languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)465-470
Number of pages6
JournalZhongguo Jiguang/Chinese Journal of Lasers
Volume37
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Feb 2010
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Millimeter-wave
  • On-off keying
  • Optical carrier suppression
  • Optical communications
  • Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing
  • Radio-over-fiber system

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