V-band gapless OFDM RoF system with power detector down-conversion and novel Volterra nonlinear filtering.

This Letter presents a V-band gapless orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) RoF system at 60 GHz employing a power detector to support vector signal down-conversion. Additional RF tone is generated and transmitted from a central station to replace the local oscillator at a wireless receiver for power detector down-conversion. To enhance the spectrum efficiency, the gap between the OFDM signal and the RF tone is not needed. However, the down-converted signal will suffer signal-to-signal interference (SSBI). In this Letter, we propose and successfully employ a novel Volterra nonlinear compensation to mitigate SSBI, resulting in a 22% data rate improvement with a bit-loading algorithm.

W-band OFDM Radio-over-Fiber system with power detector for vector signal down-conversion.

This Letter proposes a W-band OFDM RoF system at 103.5 GHz employing power detector to support vector signal down-conversion. Additional RF tone is generated and transmitted from central office to replace the local oscillator at a wireless receiver. With a proper frequency gap and power ratio between the RF tone and the OFDM-modulated signal, the impact from signal-to-signal beating interference can be minimized. The data rate can achieve a 40 Gbps 16 QAM OFDM signal over 25 km fiber and 2 m wireless transmission.