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Nonlinear Distortion Effects of OFDM Signals in a Radio over fiber Link Involving in a Mach-Zehnder Modulator

MZ변조기를 이용한 ROF링크에서 OFDM신호의 비선형왜곡 효과

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  • 송주빈 (경희대학교 전자정보대학 통신연구실)
  • Published : 2006.10.31
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Abstract

The performance of ROF systems can be severely degraded due to nonlinear effects in the channel. Also, Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex(OFDM), as a standard for broadband wireless and mobile internet networks, is being proposed for deployment with ROF systems to facilitate the total performance of a system. In this paper, at first, the performance of the OFDM-based RoF system with a Mach-Zehnder(MZ) modulator distortion effects has been analyzed at 5.8GHz. Evaluation of mean-squared error of the proposed OFDM-RoF system was carried out to compare with the conventional single carrier system based RoF link after the modulator distortion case and also for fixed signal to noise ratio(SNR) of 20dB using undistorted OFDM signal. Nominal and offset baising pre-distortion techniques are applied in proposed system to linearize the OFDM-RoF link. Finally, a comparison between the aforementioned pre-distortion techniques applied showed important observation in terms of distortion-free dynamic range and SNR to choose offset pre-distortion technique for our proposed system.

Radio over Fiber(ROF) 채널에서의 비선형효과는 시스템의 성능을 감소하는 주요 원인 중에 하나이다. 특히, 휴대인터넷 및 고속무선통신에서 Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex(OFDM) 방식이 주로 사용되는데 이 신호가 ROF 링크를 통하여 전송될 때 전체 시스템의 성능을 충족하여야 한다. 본 논문에서는 Mach-Zehnder(MZ) 변조기를 사용한 5.8GHz의 OFDM 신호기반 RoF 링크의 비선형효과를 해석하였다. OFDM-RoF 시스템의 평균자승오차 성능을 구하였다. 변조 왜곡된 후 RoF 링크에서 단일 캐리어에 대한 평균자승오차 성능과 SNR이 20dB로 고정된 경우 왜곡이 없는 OFDM신호를 사용한 경우의 평균자승오차 성능을 비교 검증하였다. OFDM-RoF 링크를 선형화하기 위하여 offset 바이어스 등 pre-distortion기술을 사용하였다. Pre-distortion기술에 따른 distortion-free dynamic range 및 SNR의 성능결과를 비교하였다.

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