Abstract
Radio over Fiber (RoF) systems supporting high frequency millimeter waves have emerged as a great choice for the Fifth
generation (5G) broadband communication. In this research article, a RoF system has been proposed with the integration of
Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) over 100 km single mode fiber (SMF) with Four Wave Mixing (FWM) suppression.
Optical phase conjugation (OPC) and Band pass optical filter (BPF) based technique has been employed to suppress the
FWM idlers. The results of the proposed WDM-RoF system have been evaluated at different input parameters such as input
power, WDM channel spacing and the number of channels in the terms of output power, FWM, Q factor and Bit error rate
(BER). A detailed comparison of Dispersion compensation fiber (DCF)-BPF and the proposed OPC-BPF has been
performed. The results reveal the mid-link spectrum inversion in OPC-BPF helps achieve improved performance with
enhanced FWM suppression and support for high input powers in the proposed system.
Keywords
Four wave Mixing, Optical Phase Conjugation, RoF, Band Pass filter(BPF).
Citation
HITESH GUPTA, HARDEEP SINGH, GAGANPREET KAUR, MANJOT KAUR, FWM suppression in radio over fiber systems using optical phase conjugation and band pass filter, Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials - Rapid Communications, 17, 3-4, March-April 2023, pp.138-147 (2023).
Submitted at: Aug. 16, 2022
Accepted at: April 7, 2023