Noise and Distortion Reduction in OFDM Radio-Over-Fiber Link by Graded-Index Plastic Optical Fiber

Kenta Muramoto; Azusa Inoue; Yasuhiro Koike

doi:10.1109/LPT.2020.2998774

Noise and Distortion Reduction in OFDM Radio-Over-Fiber Link by Graded-Index Plastic Optical Fiber

Kenta Muramoto, Azusa Inoue, Yasuhiro Koike

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Abstract

We demonstrate that a graded-index plastic optical fiber (GI POF) enables higher-quality radio-over-fiber (RoF) transmission of an orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) signal, compared with a conventional multimode fiber, for short-distance household applications (< 100 m). It is shown that the improvement in OFDM signal transmission, using the GI POF, can be attributed to the reduction in noise and intermodulation distortion, owing to the external optical feedback from the transmission fibers. The low noise and low distortion in the signal transmission are mainly due to the strong mode coupling in the GI POF, which is closely related to the microscopic heterogeneous structures in core polymer materials. The developed GI POF will be invaluable for RoF networks in households as a solution for indoor broadband wireless communications in the upcoming 5G era.

Original language	English
Article number	9104659
Pages (from-to)	835-838
Number of pages	4
Journal	IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
Volume	32
Issue number	13
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/LPT.2020.2998774
Publication status	Published - 2020 Jul 1

Keywords

Intermodulation distortion
OFDM
optical feedback
plastic optical fiber

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Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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