Journal article
Design and analysis of digitized RF-over-fiber links
PA Gamage, A Nirmalathas, C Lim, D Novak, R Waterhouse
Journal of Lightwave Technology | IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC | Published : 2009
Abstract
In this paper, we present a performance analysis of microwave signal transmission by deploying digitized RF transport over a standard optical fiber link. The bandpass sampling technique is used to digitize the RF signal. An analytical model, which is transparent to any modulation format, was developed to assess the transmission performance of a digitized RF signal in M-level quadrature amplitude modulation (M-QAM) format. Using this analytical model, key design parameters such as bit resolution, link bit rate, receiver sensitivity, and link signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) were analyzed for a digitized 2.475 GHz RF signal with 16-QAM data modulation format and 6 MSymbols/s baud rate over a 20-km ..
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Awarded by Australian Research Council
Funding Acknowledgements
Manuscript received July 05, 2008; revised August 29, 2008. First published April 17, 2009; current version published June 24, 2009. This work was supported in part by the Australian Research Council's Discovery Project 0452223.