Performance Evaluation of Dispersion Compensation Fiber-based Coherent Optical OFDM-WDM for Long Haul RoF

Abstract

     Demanding extra Bandwidth and high data rates has been meet by the integration both of wired and wireless communication systems. For that the Radio over Fiber (RoF) technology has gained a traction. In this article a Coherent Optical Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (CO-OFDM) is proposed as the main wired system for transmitting data at high rates suffers from the polarization mode dispersion and chromatic dispersion of the optical channel which mitigates the data rates. Thus, to combat these limitations a Desperation Compensation Fiber (DCF) which adds negative attenuation to the optical signals transmitted in optical fiber is suggested. Moreover, the addition of Wavelength- Division- Multiplexing (WDM) to the system of transmission provides better bandwidth saving, high data rates, and better spectral efficiency, and power utilization. The efficiency of high data rate CO-OFDM integrated with RoF for long haul transmission between 100km and 450km with data rates up to 10 Gbps have been investigated in this article with SMF-DCF with 16 DPSK and 16-QAM modulations schemes respectively. The simulation results showed that the proposed system can achieve a high data rate up to 55 Gbps but when integrated with WDM, with a fiber link length can be increased to up to 6600 kilometers, with highest data rate up to 1.65 Tbps.