Behaviour of Cross Polarization on Radio over Fiber Links

The future vision of integrating back- and front-haul in 5G mobile networks requires the design of high capacity transport network architecture, enabling flexible service management with high reliability. This paper presents an approach using Radio over Fiber (RoF) technology for 5G back- and front-haul applications. We present the PMD effect on the quality of the network parameters (distance, BER, Bit rate Quality factor Q). We also simulate the Polarization by Scattering in the two cases with PMD induced penalties for variable and fixed scattering lengths. The same Rayleigh scattering effect that gives us the blue sky also polarizes the scattered light, which causes a serious problem in radio over fiber links