Proposal of a nonlinear compensation scheme using an optical chirp controller in SCM/OFM RoF link

An SCM optical FM method can obtain an FM gain, so it is effective on employing an RoF link which transfers a broad-band or multicarrier RF signal. However, the RF signal quality is degraded by intermodulation distortions due to the nonlinearity of LDs and optical frequency discriminator. The nonlinear compensation technique in the RoF link has been investigated in order to obtain a higher RF signal quality. This paper proposes an insertion-type distortion nonlinear compensation. In the proposed scheme, a nonlinear device is inserted between transmitter and receiver and we propose an optical chirp controller as the nonlinear device. The proposed scheme suppresses the higher order intermodulation distortion which degrades RF signal quality in the adaptive transmittance control method. In this paper we theoretically analyze the SFDR of the optical FM method using the optical chirp controller and show that improvement in the SFDR at 9 and 5 dB compared to methods without nonlinear compensation and the adaptive transmittance control method, respectively, can be obtained. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Electron Comm Jpn Pt 1, 89(12): 1–11, 2006; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/ecja.20322

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