Proposal and performance analysis on the PDM microwave photonic link for the mm-wave signal with hybrid QAM-MPPM-RZ modulation

Bo Tian, Qi Zhang, Jianxin Ma, Ying Tao, Yufei Shen, Yang Wang, Geng Zhang, Wenmao Zhou, Yi Zhao, Xiaolong Pan*

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Abstract

A polarization division multiplexed (PDM) microwave photonic link for the millimeter (MM)-wave signal with hybrid modulation scheme is proposed in this paper, which is based on the combination of quadrature amplitude modulation, multi-pulse pulse-position modulation and return to zero modulation (QAM-MPPM-RZ). In this scheme, the two orthogonal polarization states enable simultaneous transmission of four data flows, which can provide different services for users according to the data rate requirement. To generate hybrid QAM-MPPM-RZ mm-wave signal, the QAM mm-wave signal is directly modulated by MPPM-RZ signal without using digital signal processing (DSP) devices, which reduces the overhead of the encoding process. Then, the generated QAM-MPPM-RZ mm-wave signal is transmitted in PDM microwave photonic link based on SSB modulation. The sparsity characteristic of QAM-MPPM-RZ not only improves the power efficiency, but also decreases the degradation caused by the fiber chromatic dispersion. The simulation results show that, under the constraint of the same transmitted data rate, the PDM microwave photonic link with 50 GHz QAM-MPPM-RZ mm-wave signal achieves much lower levels of bit-error rate than ordinary 32-QAM. In addition, the increase of laser linewidth brings no additional impact to the proposed scheme.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)59-66
Number of pages8
JournalOptics Communications
Volume419
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 15 Jul 2018
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Mm-wave
  • PDM microwave photonic link
  • QAM-MPPM-RZ

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