Experimental demonstration of all-optical PolMux RoF system with multiservice transmission

• Main Authors: Mohamad Nor, Mohd Hafiz, Kanesan, Thavamaran, Maskuriy, Farha, Yusuf, A., Fatah, F. A., Ahmad Anas, Siti Barirah
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2020
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/88895/1/OPT.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/88895/; https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0030401820307100

In this paper, a Radio-over-Fiber (RoF) system is proposed by combining optical carrier suppression (OCS) and polarization multiplexing (PolMux) techniques in all-optical mode to enable multi-service transmission. Previous studies on RoF system only exploited multi-service transmission over low radio frequency (RF) oscillator-based PolMux, subcarrier multiplexing (SCM) and wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) techniques. Hence, herein, PolMux jointly with OCS techniques are exploited as a new medium of multiplexing in RoF system. Essentially, two contributions are unveiled, firstly the combination of all optical OCS and PolMux for RoF technology to enable multi-service transmission, and secondly an end-to-end all-optical transmission with the inclusion of wireless medium at millimeter wave (mmWave) frequency. The results indicate a highly reliable OCS-PolMux topology, where the EVM deterioration due to polarization leakage factor was only 1% to 2% for both services transmitted at the same frequency. Most importantly, the proposed system demonstrated an end-to-end system transmission with optical receiver power budget of up to 6 dB.