TY - JOUR
T1 - Investigation of Optical Modulators in Optimized Nonlinear Compensated LTE RoF System
AU - Kanesan, Thavamaran
AU - Ng, Wai Pang
AU - Ghassemlooy, Zabih
AU - Lu, Chao
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PY - 2014/5
Y1 - 2014/5
N2 - In this paper, we investigate a nonlinear compensation technique with two different architectures using direct modulation (DM) and external modulation (EM) techniques, termed as DM based frequency dithering (DMFD) and EM based frequency dithering (EMFD). We show that DMFD and EMFD methods operate substantially different in radio-over-fiber (RoF) system by optimizing the dithering technique relative to the LTE technology. The proposed techniques is only applicable if the condition of {fL <fd <fRF} is met, where fL represents the dithering boundary limit of 14 MHz, fd is DMFD signal frequency and fRF is the RoF carrier frequency. Analysis of the optical launch power for DMFD and EMFD methods reveal that the stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) threshold is above ~6 dBm for the LTE-RoF system. In addition, we also unveil that DMFD and EMFD methods do not introduce additional distortion for the linear and optimum optical launch power regions, which are frequency chirp driven regions. If the given condition is met, the proposed method improves the LTE-RoF system without any shortcoming. Finally, at 10 dBm launch power, DMFD and EMFD methods exhibits an average signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) gain of ~5.95 dB and ~7.71 dB, respectively.
AB - In this paper, we investigate a nonlinear compensation technique with two different architectures using direct modulation (DM) and external modulation (EM) techniques, termed as DM based frequency dithering (DMFD) and EM based frequency dithering (EMFD). We show that DMFD and EMFD methods operate substantially different in radio-over-fiber (RoF) system by optimizing the dithering technique relative to the LTE technology. The proposed techniques is only applicable if the condition of {fL <fd <fRF} is met, where fL represents the dithering boundary limit of 14 MHz, fd is DMFD signal frequency and fRF is the RoF carrier frequency. Analysis of the optical launch power for DMFD and EMFD methods reveal that the stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) threshold is above ~6 dBm for the LTE-RoF system. In addition, we also unveil that DMFD and EMFD methods do not introduce additional distortion for the linear and optimum optical launch power regions, which are frequency chirp driven regions. If the given condition is met, the proposed method improves the LTE-RoF system without any shortcoming. Finally, at 10 dBm launch power, DMFD and EMFD methods exhibits an average signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) gain of ~5.95 dB and ~7.71 dB, respectively.
KW - Long term evolution (LTE)
KW - nonlinear compensation
KW - optical OFDM (OOFDM)
KW - radio-over-fiber (RoF)
U2 - 10.1109/jlt.2014.2312321
DO - 10.1109/jlt.2014.2312321
M3 - Article
SN - 0733-8724
VL - 32
SP - 1944
EP - 1950
JO - Journal of Lightwave Technology
JF - Journal of Lightwave Technology
IS - 10
ER -