Experimental Demonstration of Nonlinearity and Phase Noise Tolerant 16-QAM OFDM W-Band (75–110 GHz) Signal Over Fiber System

Lei Deng, Xiaodan Pang, Idelfonso Tafur Monroy, Ming Tang, Ping Shum, Deming Liu

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    Abstract

    We propose a nonlinearity and phase noise tolerant orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) W-band signal over fiber system based on phase modulation and photonic heterodyne up-conversion techniques. By heterodyne mixing the phase-modulated optical OFDM signal with a free-running laser in the photodiode, the constant envelope OFDM W-band wireless signal is obtained to suppress the nonlinear impairments. Moreover, the phase noises of the beating lasers appear as additive terms to the desired signal, and could be easily filtered out without complex phase noise estimation and compensation algorithms. In our experiment, 4 Gb/s QPSK and 8 Gb/s 16-QAM constant envelope OFDM W-band signals are transmitted over 22.8 km single mode fiber and 2.3 m air distance with achieved bit-error-rate performance below the forward error correction limit.
    Original languageEnglish
    JournalJournal of Lightwave Technology
    Volume32
    Issue number8
    Pages (from-to)1442-1448
    ISSN0733-8724
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2014

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