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Broad Convergence of 32QAM-OFDM ROF and WDM-OFDM-PON System Using an Integrated Modulator for Bidirectional Access Networks
Bo Liu1, 2, Xiangjun Xin1, 2, Lijia Zhang1, 2, Kun Zhao1, Chongxiu Yu2
1School of Electronic Engineering, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), Beijing 100876, China 2Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications (BUPT), Ministry of Education,Beijing 100876, China

Abstract: We propose and demonstrate a novel architecture of converged 32QAM-OFDM ROF and
WDM-OFDM-PON by employing an integrated modulator. The 10Gb/s 16QAM-OFDM wired signal, 1Gb/s 32QAM-OFDM wireless signal and upstream signal are transmitted 25km fiber successfully.
2010 Optical Society of America
OCIS codes: (060.4250) Networks; (060.4510) Optical Communications.

1. Introduction Future access networks will need to provide broadband connectivity to end users, both in wireless and wired form [1]. Radio over fiber (ROF) technology, providing effective convergence of optical and wireless access networking systems, has spurred much interest for increasing the capacity and mobility requirements of future network architecture [2]. The design of ROF system is expected to be compatible with wave-division-multiplexing passive optical networks (WDM-PON) to flexibly serve both fixed and mobile users [3]. Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) is a promising technology which has very high spectrum efficiency and robust dispersion tolerance to improve system capability and transmission distance over fiber and air links. Recently, several OFDM based access systems have been proposed, such as OFDM modulated WDM-PON [4], OFDM based metro access [5], and OFDM-ROF system [6]. Nonetheless, the convergence system of OFDM modulated PON and OFDM-ROF has never been demonstrated, which can improve the spectral efficiency both in wired and wireless access system, also support the seamless integration between air and optical transmission. Additionally, the re-modulation technology reduces the cost and complexity in base station [2], while an integrate modulator can be used to generate the ROF and PON signal simultaneously in central station. In this paper, we experimentally demonstrate a converged architecture of 40GHz 32QAM-OFDM ROF and WDM-OFDM-PON for transmitting 1Gb/s wireless and 10Gb/s wired signals using an integrated modulator where the phase difference between the two arms of modulator is utilized to alleviate the crosstalk between the downstream signals. Using this scheme, the 2.5Gb/s OFDM ROF signal, the 10Gb/s OFDM-PON signal and the 2.5Gb/s OOK re-modulated signals are successfully transmitted over 25km SMF (single mode fiber) with less than 0.3dB power penalty .
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2. System Configuration Fig.1 illustrates the proposed configuration of the converged access system. The central office (CO) consists of N distributed laser sources. In each channel, a CW lightwave is modulated by an integrated external modulator, which consisting of two single intensity Mach Zehnder modulators (MZMs) and a phase shifter. The MZM of the upper arm is modulated by the 16QAM-OFDM PON signal, and the bottom one is driven by the 32QAM-OFDM RF signal, which is generated by up-conversion of the 32QAM-OFDM signal via a mixer. A / 2 phase difference is imported between the upper and lower arms to remove the coherent crosstalk between the two arm optical signals. Finally, the N outer converged OFDM signals are sent downstream through a MUX. After transmission, a DEMUX is used to separate channels and then deliver to different base stations (BS). A suitable interleaver (IL) is employed to separate the optical wireless signal (40GHz optical mm-wave) from the wired signal. After down-conversion, the wireless signals are sent to the OFDM receiver directly. The downstream wired signals are sent to two paths. One is fed to the OFDM receiver, and the other is re-modulated by the upstream signal through an intensity modulator (IM) and sent back to the CO. Thus the convergence of 32QAM-OFDM Modulated ROF and WDM-OFDM-PON system is realized.
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3. Experimental setup and results The experimental setup is shown in Fig.2. At the CO, a DFB laser at 1550.706nm is employed as the light source. The OFDM signals are generated offline by MATLAB program and uploaded into a Tektronix Arbitrary Waveform Generator (AWG). 32QAM and 16QAM are used for baseband symbol mapping respectively. The FFT size is 256 with 200 data subcarriers, 25 subcarriers at low frequency and 24 subcarriers at high frequency unfilled for over-sampling. 7 pilot sub-carriers are used for phase estimation, and the length of cyclic prefix is 16 samples. We adopt software up-conversion for 32QAM-OFDM to eliminate the low frequency damnification, and the intermediate frequency (IF) is 650MHz. The RF signals mixed with 1Gb/s 32QAM-OFDM and 20GHz RF clock are used to driver the MZM at upper arm. The one at bottom arm is driven directly by the baseband 16QAM-OFDM signals that adopt Hermitian symmetry. Then the optical signals are amplified by an EDFA to obtain 10-dBm power before transmission. The insert (a) in Fig.3 shows the optical spectrum of the modulated optical signals. At the base station, the 40GHz optical mm-wave signal are separated from the wired signal by an IL, and the optical spectra of separated signals are shown as insert from (b)-(c) in Fig.3 respectively. For the mm-wave signal, a pre-EDFA with a gain of 30dB is used before its detecting. After filtered by a TOF with the bandwidth of 0.6nm to suppress the ASE noise, the signal is detected by a PIN PD with 3dB bandwidth of 50GHz to execute O/E conversion. After passing an electrical BPF, a 40GHz RF clock and a mixer are employed to down- convert the mm-wave signals to the baseband. After a LPF with bandwidth of 3GHz, the down-converted OFDM signal is sent to the TDS to capture the waveform for offline procession. The measured BER curve and the corresponding constellation of 32QAM-OFDM signal are shown in Fig.4(a).The wired signal is divided into two parts. One part is fed into a 10GHz PIN PD for O/E conversion, and the same mechanism is used to demodulate the baseband OFDM signal. The other part is used for upstream re-modulation. Fig.4(b) presents the measured BER curve and constellation maps of the 10Gb/s 16QAM-OFDM signal. The downstream signal is re-modulated by an IM at 2.5Gb/s with PRBS length of 231-1.After 25-km upstream link, the signal is detected by an PD of 10GHz bandwidth. The optical spectrum, BER curve and eye diagram are exhibited in Fig.3(d)-(e) respectively. The power penalty at a BER of 10-9 is less than 0.3 dB.

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4. Conclusion We have proposed and demonstrated a converged networks architecture of 40GHz 32QAM-OFDM ROF and WDM-OFDM-PON for providing bidirectional access services. Our experimental results show that the power penalty are less than 0.5dB for both downstream wired and wireless signals over 25km SMF transmission. The power penalty for the remodulate upstream signal is less than 0.3dB. Acknowledgement: The financial support from National Basic Research Program of China with No. 2010CB328300, National Natural Science Foundation of China with No. 60677004, 60977046, National High Technology 863 Research and Development Program of China with No. 2009AA01Z220. Reference
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