Journal article
Performance of a 60-GHz DCM-OFDM and BPSK-Impulse Ultra-Wideband System with Radio-Over-Fiber and Wireless Transmission Employing a Directly-Modulated VCSEL
The performance of radio-over-fiber optical transmission employing vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs), and further wireless transmission, of the two major ultra-wideband (UWB) implementations is reported when operating in the 60-GHz radio band. Performance is evaluated at 1.44 Gbit/s bitrate.
The two UWB implementations considered employ dual-carrier modulation orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (DCM-OFDM) and binary phase-shift keying impulse radio (BPSK-IR) modulation respectively. Optical transmission distances up to 40 km in standard single-mode fiber and up to 500 m in bend-insensitive single-mode fiber with wireless transmission up to 5 m in both cases is demonstrated with no penalty.
A simulation analysis has also been performed in order to investigate the operational limits. The analysis results are in excellent agreement with the experimental work and indicate good tolerance to chromatic dispersion due to the chirp characteristics of electro-optical conversion when a directly-modulated VCSEL is employed.
The performance comparison indicates that BPSK-IR UWB exhibits better tolerance to optical transmission impairments requiring lower received optical power than its DCM-OFDM UWB counterpart when operating in the 60-GHz band.
| Language: | English |
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| Publisher: | IEEE |
| Year: | 2011 |
| Pages: | 1295-1303 |
| ISSN: | 15580008 and 07338716 |
| Types: | Journal article |
| DOI: | 10.1109/JSAC.2011.110616 |
| ORCIDs: | Tafur Monroy, Idelfonso |
60 GHz radio BPSK impulse ultra wideband system BPSK-IR modulation DCM OFDM Dual carrier modulation OFDM modulation Optical attenuators Optical distortion Optical modulation Optical receivers Optical sensors Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers Wireless communication bend-insensitive single mode fiber binary phase shift keying impulse radio bit rate 1.44 Gbit/s chirp characteristic chromatic dispersion directly modulated VCSEL dual carrier modulation orthogonal frequency division multiplexing electro-optical conversion frequency 60 GHz impulse radio orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) phase shift keying radio over fiber radio-over-fiber optical transmission radio-over-fibre ultra wideband (UWB) ultra wideband communication vertical cavity surface emitting laser vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) wireless transmission
