Spatial Filtering in A Broadband In-Home OFDM Radio-Over-Fiber Network
Spatial Filtering in A Broadband In-Home OFDM Radio-Over-Fiber Network
Spatial Filtering in A Broadband In-Home OFDM Radio-Over-Fiber Network
I. I NTRODUCTION
Fig. 8. Welch power spectral density for the down converted OFDM of (a)
Fig. 6. Constellations of the received OFDM signal at Rx-L/M/R for 10mm Rx-L with 10 mm offset and (b) Rx-R with 10mm offset.
and 10mm delay.
IV. C ONCLUSION
To the best of our knowledge, the broadband optical true
time delay for microwave-beam steering (OTTD-MBS) with
advanced OFDM modulation is proposed and experimentally
demonstrated in an in-home radio-over-fibre network for the
first time 3.975 Gbps wireless transmission is successfully
demonstrated with 4 orders of magnitude bit error ratio
Fig. 7. BER curves at Rx-M/R for 10 mm delay. improvement. Combining the spectrum efficiency of OFDM,
the spatial filtering feature of OTTD-MBS, and the simple
an integer multiple of mm . The peaks of Rx-L/R are sym- architecture to implement pico-cell networks, the proposed
metric around Rx-Ms peak, due to the geometric symmetry. system can be an interesting solution for future broadband
The measured peaks and nulls match with the simulated results in-home networks.
very well. The contrast from peak to null is 19.4 and 29.3 dB
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