Converged Wireless and Wireline Access System Based on Optical Phase Modulation for Both Radio-Over-Fiber and Baseband Signals

We propose and experimentally investigate a scheme for transmitting a phase-modulated radio-over-fiber (RoF) signal along an existing fiber infrastructure without degradation of the existing baseband signal. Optical phase encoding of both signals, namely a baseband 21.4-Gb/s nonreturn-to-zero differential quaternary phase-shift keyed signal and a 5.25-GHz RoF carrying 1.25 Gb/s, enables the use of identical optical receiver structures. The experimental results show that both receivers achieve error-free operation after 80-km standard single-mode fiber transmission. The proposed scheme has potential applications for converged wireless and wireline optical access networks.      

Full-Duplex 60-GHz RoF System With Optical Local Oscillating Carrier Distribution Scheme Based on FWM Effect in SOA

A full-duplex 60-GHz radio-over-fiber (RoF) system using novel optical local oscillating (LO) carrier distribution scheme to reduce the system cost and realize centralized management is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. In the proposed scheme, the optical LO carriers for producing remote electrical LO signals at the base stations (BSs) are generated together with the downlink RoF carriers at the central station (CS) via four-wave-mixing effect in semiconductor optical amplifier, and are then distributed to the BSs along with the downlink RoF signals. By down-converting the 60-GHz-band uplink signal with the remotely produced 60-GHz LO signal and reusing the optical LO carriers as the uplink optical source, only a cost-effective intermediate frequency modulator is required at each BS to transmit the uplink signal, which will dramatically reduce the whole system budget due to a large amount of BSs. Moreover, the operating frequency of each BS can be controlled remotely at the CS end to realize centralized management and convenient reconfiguration. Using the proposed scheme, 622-Mb/s signals for both directions are successfully transmitted over a 20-km single-mode fiber link and a 50-cm wireless channel with less than 0.1- and 0.2-dB power penalty for downlink and uplink, respectively.      

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

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.     

A Novel Direct Detection Microwave Photonic Vector Modulation Scheme for Radio-Over-Fiber System

This letter demonstrates the feasibility of a novel direct detection microwave photonic vector modulation scheme for the radio-over-fiber (RoF) system. Unlike the traditional double-sideband with optical carrier suppression modulation scheme, which can carry only the on-off keying data format, the proposed scheme encodes the electrical vector signal on either the upper sideband (USB) or the lower sideband (LSB) only and a pure optical subcarrier on the other sideband. Therefore, phase and amplitude information will be preserved after direct detection. A frequency doubling scheme is employed to reduce the cost of RoF systems. Additionally, the relative intensity between USB and LSB can be easily tuned by adjusting the individual power of electrical driving signals to optimize the performance of the optical radio-frequency signals. A proof-of-concept experiment is conducted by using a 1.25 Gb/s BPSK signal at a carrier frequency of 20 GHz. After transmission over 50-km single-mode fiber, the receiver sensitivity penalty is less than 0.5 dB.     

A novel scheme to generate multiband millimeter wave signals for 40 GHz full duplex radio-over-fiber system

This paper proposes a new scheme to generate frequency-diversity binary phase shift keying (BPSK) signals for radio-over-fiber (RoF) system. As is well known, the frequency diversity technology has the anti frequency selective fading characteristic and RoF system is a practical solution to increase the capacity and mobility of future-proof contents delivery and serve both fixed and mobile users. In this paper, our proposal can generate 20 GHz and 40 GHz millimeter-wave (mm-wave) signals simultaneously with the data rate of 1.25 Gbit/s employing only one electrical optical phase modulator (EOPM) and one Mach-Zehnder modulator (MZM) at the central station. With one additional MZM at the base station, the full duplex transmission can be accomplished. As the downstream data is phase modulated, the optical signal can be re-used to load the upstream data and no laser diode (LD) is needed at the base station, which simplify the structure of the base station. The 20 GHz electrical carrier is also generated which can be used to demodulate the BPSK signal. The whole scheme can be used in the future duplex RoF system.     

Bidirectional and simultaneous transmission of baseband and wireless signals over RSOA based WDM radio-over-fiber passive optical network using incoherent light injection technique

Reflective semiconductor optical amplifier (RSOA) based wavelength division multiplexed radio-over-fiber passive optical network (WDM−RoF−PON) has been proposed and demonstrated, to transmit 2.5 Gbps baseband (BB) and 1.25 Gbps wireless data in downstream and 1 Gbps BB data signal in upstream over 25-km single-mode fiber (SMF), and wireless downstream signal over 25-km SMF as well as 5.2 m free space in air. In the downstream, 2.5 Gbps BB data and 1.25 Gbps wireless data are modulated using single-electrode Mach–Zehnder modulator (SD-MZM) based on double-sideband with optical carrier suppression (DSBCS) scheme and simultaneously transmitted by incoherent light injection technique and employing fiber Bragg grating (FBG) at the base station. RSOA is utilized at the user end to reuse the carrier for uplink transmission. High receiver sensitivity, low bit-error-rate (BER) and excellent eye-diagram, eye height are achieved in our proposed network system and the results affirm the acceptability of proposed RSOA based WDM−RoF−PON.     

Multi-band QPSK signal transmission implemented with remote up-conversion and Schottky RF detectors in a 60-GHz millimeter wave radio-over-fiber system

A simple multi-band QPSK signal transmission scheme, constructed by using an optical remote up-conversion technique and a Schottky diode RF detector, is theoretically analyzed and experimentally implemented in a 60-GHz millimeter wave (mm-wave) radio over fiber (RoF) system, for the first time. There is no need for complex system architecture or any expensive high-frequency clock source in our scheme. Simulation results show that our scheme is highly tolerant to fiber dispersion, compared with the conventional 60 GHz multi-band RoF system. In the experimental demonstration, successful delivery of QPSK signals at two 60-GHz sub-bands is achieved over 50-km fiber and 4-m wireless distance.     

基于两个平行马赫-增德尔调制器的光载无线传输系统

为提高光载无线(radio over fiber,RoF) 传输系统中的光波信号的利用率,本文提出了一种基于两个平行马赫-增德尔调制器 (Mach-Zehnder modulator,MZM) 的RoF传输系统。两个平行MZM经射频(radio frequency,RF) 信号调制后,产生5个光边带信号,分别是正负一阶光边带、正负二阶光边带和光载波。其中正负二阶光边带使用基带数据进行调制,经光电检测器(photodiode,PD) 拍频后产生已调数据的毫米波信号,再由天线发射出去。正二阶边带和光载波经PD拍频后产生未调制数据的毫米波,该毫米波用于接收端解调的本振信号(local oscillator,LO) 。负二阶边带信号用于上行链路的光载波。在本系统中,5个光边带信号都被充分利用,提高了光信号的利用效率。此外,还分析了该系统通过色散介质的传输特性,为RoF通信系统提供了一种实用化的解决方案。     

Hybrid Access Network Integrated With Wireless Multilevel Vector and Wired Baseband Signals Using Frequency Doubling and No Optical Filtering

This letter experimentally demonstrated a hybrid access network which supports both radio-over-fiber and fiber-to-the-x systems. A 20-GHz radio-frequency (RF) 312.5-MSymbol/s M-ary phase-shift keying (PSK) signal and a baseband (BB) 1.25-Gb/s on–off keying signal are simultaneously generated and transmitted over an identical distributed infrastructure. The wired BB signal is compatible with the existing passive optical network (PON) system, and the wireless RF PSK signal can also share the same distributed infrastructure. The proposed system has no RF fading issue, no narrowband optical filter at remote node to separate the RF and BB signals, and can carry vector signals. Moreover, a frequency doubling for optical RF signal generation is achieved to reduce the bandwidth requirement of the transmitter. After transmission over 25-km standard signal-mode fiber, the receiver sensitivity penalties are less than 0.5 dB for both the RF and BB channels.      

Simultaneous Generation of Baseband and Radio Signals Using Only One Single-Electrode Mach–Zehnder Modulator With Enhanced Linearity

We experimentally demonstrate a simultaneous generation of baseband (BB) and RF signals, using only one single-electrode Mach-Zehnder modulator (SD-MZM) based on double-sideband with optical carrier suppression (DSBCS) scheme. With optimal modulation index (MI =V _p-p/2V_pi) equal to 0.43 for driving MZM, the receiver sensitivity of the RF signal can have 1-dB improvement. Based on this result, only one SD-MZM is needed to generate optical microwaves using DSBCS scheme, thus eliminating the requirement of a high-cost dual-electrode MZM without degrading the signal performance. Following 75-km standard single-mode fiber, the power penalties of both BB and RF signals are less than 0.3 dB     

基于FBG和偏振复用的8倍频全双工RoF系统

为简化光载无线通信系统(RoF)中心站(CS)和基站(BS)结构,提出了一种基于光纤布拉格光栅(FBG)和偏振复用技术的8倍频全双工RoF系统方案。通过设置马赫-曾德尔调制器(MZM)偏置电压和射频驱动信号幅度保留部分主载波与偶数阶边带,再利用FBG将主载波与偶数阶边带分离。结合偏振复用技术将主载波和偶数阶边带复用到X和Y两个偏振方向上,其中抑制载波偶数阶边带用于下行链路数据传输,而主载波在BS站作为上行链路载波使用。理论推导了实现机理并进行了实验验证,结果表明当使用10 GHz射频驱动时可实现稳定的80 GHz光载毫米波信号,传输20 km后下行链路和上行链路功率代价仅为0.1和0.07 dB,表现出了较好的系统性能。     

Multisideband Detection Radio-Over-Fiber Link With Phase Modulation and Fiber Demodulation for Vector Signal Transmission

We propose and demonstrate a multisideband detection (MSD) radio-over-fiber (RoF) link with optical phase modulation (PM) and fiber demodulation to transmit vector signals. In the scheme, the optical PM signal is demodulated by the fiber dispersion. The fading effect can be almost entirely overcome thanks to the MSD. In case of 50-Msymbols/s vector signal with frequencies of subcarrier ranging from 2 to 12 GHz over 25-, 50-, and 100-km single-mode fibers, respectively, the RoF-link's error vector magnitude of better than 4.5% and spurious-free dynamic range of more than 97 ${hbox {dB}}cdot hbox{Hz}^{2/3}$ are obtained experimentally.      

A Q-band radio-over-fiber system for distribution of uncompressed high-definition video signals

A Q-band radio-over-fiber (RoF) system for transmission of uncompressed high-definition (HD) video signals is proposed and demonstrated. Three key photonic technologies are employed, i.e., the dispersion compensation based on a polarization modulator and a polarizer in the transmitter, the RF carrier extraction based on injection-locked optoelectronic oscillator and the frequency downconversion based on cascaded external modulations in the receiver. A proof-of-concept experiment is carried out. Results show that the proposed system supports 20-km wired and 0.5-m wireless distribution of uncompressed HD video signal. The cooperation of two antennas is also demonstrated, which provides a preliminary demonstration of intelligent RoF system.     

偏分复用系统中直接解复用反馈信号建模及验证

在采用直接解复用的偏分复用(PDM)系统中,反馈信号是决定系统解复用性能的关键因素,因此反馈信号的选取与正确建模至关重要。本文详细分析了两偏振态信号光相干性对基于光功率差和射频(RF)功率两种直接解复用反馈信号的影响,完善了相关的理论模型,建立了100Gbit/s的PDM-DQPSK传输系统仿真平台,对两种反馈信号的解复用效果进行了验证。结果表明,无论两偏振态信号光的相干性如何,基于光功率差的反馈信号都适用,而RF功率反馈信号只适用于信号光相干度较大的情况;在两种反馈信号均可以使用的情况下,它们的解复用效果基本相同,引入的光功率代价均约为0.1dB。     

Improved aquila optimization-based parameter evaluation framework and meta-heuristic algorithm in radio-over-fiber SpatialMux multi-input multi-output long-term evolution system

In heterogeneous access network, Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) radio-over-fiber (RoF) system is an efficient approach for multiple signal transmission with low cost and complexity. The performance of RoF fronthaul system in MIMO system will be varied with different nonlinear effects. By adjusting various transmission parameters, such as the input signal power or the laser bias current, the nonlinear impacts produced by the RoF system can be reduced. In this paper, a novel algorithm Improved Aquila Optimization (IAO) is proposed to optimize transmission circumstances of MIMO RoF system. It determines the appropriate bias current for both lasers and Radio Frequency (RF) signal power in a short period. The input signals are wavelength multiplexed with Intensity Modulation and Direct Detection (IM/DD) applied. The carrier as well as transmission frequency is governed by the MIMO-Long-Term Evolution (LTE) standard. The proposed system is implemented in MATLAB, and the performance is evaluated. The experimental results show that fast convergence and trade-off between noise and nonlinearity are obtained with varying bandwidth. In the experimental scenario, the maximum Error Vector Magnitude (EVM) of 1.88, 3.14, and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of 3.204, and 2.698 was attained for both quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK) and quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) modulation. [Correction added on 24 April 2023, after first online publication: the SNR values were corrected in the preceding sentence.] For 100 iterations, the processing time was reduced to 0.137 s. When compared with the conventional state-of-the-art approaches, the accuracy and computational complexity of the proposed approach are improved.     

Dynamic Reconfigurable WDM 60-GHz Millimeter-Waveband Radio-Over-Fiber Access Network: Architectural Considerations and Experiment

We will propose a dynamic reconfigurable wavelength-division-multiplexed (WDM) millimeter-waveband (mm-waveband) radio-over-fiber (RoF) access network and demonstrate, for the first time, a dynamic-channel-allocation capability of millimeter-waveband optical RoF signals in WDM access network using a supercontinuum light source, arrayed-waveguide gratings, and a reconfigurable optical-crossconnect switch. The dynamic reconfigurable RoF network architecture is presented, and its features are described. Then, four 155-Mb/s RoF channels are effectively generated, transmitted through 25 km of fiber, switched, transmitted again through 2 km of fiber, and detected with an error-free operation (bit error rate < 10^-10). The proposed RoF architecture is highly scalable, both in terms of channel and access-point counts.     

一种克服色度色散影响的四倍频光毫米波信号产生方法

提出一种克服色度色散影响的四倍频光毫米波信号产生方法。该方法使用一个双驱动马赫曾德尔调制器,通过调整上、下两路射频信号的相位差、直流偏置点、调制系数以及基带信号增益,将数据信号仅调制到四倍频光毫米波信号的一个2阶边带上传输,解决了色度色散引起的码元走离问题,有效增加了传输距离。理论分析和仿真实验结果表明,信号在光纤中传输120 km后眼图仍然十分清晰,经过60 km传输后的功率代价约为0.45 dB。另外,基于频率再用技术,没有调制数据的另一个2阶边带信号还可以作为全双工光纤无线通信(RoF)系统的上行链路光载波,简化了基站配置。仿真实验结果表明,双向2.5 Gbit/s数据信号在光纤中传输40 km后,功率代价小于0.6 dB。     

基于混合集成的高增益光接收模块北大核心

针对光载无线通信(RoF)系统对高增益、小型化光接收模块(ROSA)的需求,基于混合集成技术,设计并制作了一种高增益的四通道ROSA器件,尺寸为20.0 mm×14.0 mm×5.9 mm。模块内集成了低噪声放大器(LNA)芯片以提高射频信号增益,建立了射频信号传输电路,并对器件特性进行了仿真分析。经测试,器件的射频信号增益达14 dB,-3 dB带宽为23 GHz,在1550 nm波长的入射光下,器件的响应度为0.81 A/W,相邻信道之间的射频信号串扰小于-40 dB。该模块对于减小RoF系统的体积和功耗具有重要意义。     

Analysis of different sub-carrier allocation of M-ary QAM-OFDM downlink in RoF system

In this paper, the performance of a 60 GHz radio over fiber (RoF) system with 4/16/64 quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) downstream signals is studied. Delivery of 10 Gbit/s M-ary QAM (MQAM) OFDM signals through the 20-km-long single-mode fiber (SMF) is complicated in terms of intensity modulation and direct detection (IM/DD). Using self-homodyne method, the beating of two independent light waves generating the millimeter-wave at the photodetector can be down-converted to baseband in the electrical domain. Meanwhile, three kinds of sub-carrier arrangement schemes are compared and discussed, and the simulation results show that lower peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) can be obtained adopting the adjacent scheme. At bit error rate (BER) of 10-3, the receiver sensitivity using 4QAM-OFDM sub-carrier signal is almost enhanced by 4 dB and 9 dB compared with those of 16QAM-OFDM signal and 64QAM-OFDM signal.     

4波长和5波长的20 GHz波时分光源研究

波时分光源在光取样、全光串并转换等领域有重要的应用前景.本文报道了一种波时分光源的实现方案:利用大功率窄光脉冲的自相位调制作用,将脉冲谱展宽.通过一个偏振干涉仪(PI)进行光谱切片,形成多波长脉冲.再经过色散光纤的色散走离,使得多波长窄脉冲在时间上形成与波长间隔和色散量有关的分布.由于PI要以通过调节差分群延时(DGD)的大小很方便地改变切出的波长间隔,这样就可以准确地调整不同波长脉冲走离的间隔.最后实验实现了20 GHz(4×5 GHz和5×4 GHz)的波时分光脉冲.