Characteristics of RoF millimeter-wave generation for 5G system

• Main Authors: Yaakob, Syamsuri, Che Beson, Mohd Rashidi, Mohamad, Romli, Zan, Zuraidah, Abdul Kadir @ Jaafar, Muhammad Zamzuri, Idrus Sutan Nameh, Sevia Mahdaliza
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 2019
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/78064/1/Characteristics%20of%20RoF%20millimeter-wave%20generation%20for%205G%20system.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/78064/

An optical millimeter-wave (mm-wave) generation system is designed to be incorporated with radio over fibre (RoF) system for 5G application. The design employs the dual-sideband optical carrier suppression (DSB-OCS) technique with a dual-electrode Mach-Zehnder modulator (DE-MZM). A mm-wave of 40 GHz is generated with the intention to be used as a wireless carrier for the distribution of 1.25 Gbps data via direct modulation (DM) over a 20 km RoF system. The result shows that the system has a phase noise of -90 dBc at 1kHz frequency offset and achieves bit error rate (BER) of 10 −9 with modulation index, m above a figure of 0.5.