All Photonic Analogue to Digital and Digital to Analogue Conversion Techniques

for Digital Radio over Fibre System Applications

S. R. Abdollahi, H.S. Al-Raweshidy, S. Mehdi Fakhraie*, and R. Nilavalan

WNCC Group, School of Eng. and Design, Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex, UB8 3PH, UK, and *University College of Engineering, University of Tehran, North Kargar Ave., Tehran, 14395-515, Iran.
E-mail: {seyedreza.abdollahi, hamed al-raweshidy, rajagopal.nilavalan}@brunel.ac.uk, and fakhraie@ut.ac.ir

Radio over Fibre (RoF) Technique Photonic Analogue-to-Digital and Digital-to-Analogue Conversions

Integration of wireless and fibre optic communication An 8-bits photonic sampling and quantization ADC is
technologies, and modulating wireless signals over designed by using 30 Gigasample/s mode-locked laser.
optical carrier for transporting over fibre optic cable.
A photonic DAC converts photonic digital waveform to
analogue optical signal. By using the proposed PDAC, the
necessity of optical to electrical conversion will be fulfilled
by only a high-speed photo diode.
RoF Features
For reducing the cost and complexity of the system, the
Centralizing signal processing, performance and error optical sampling pulse has been reused at base-station for
monitoring, share resources, and control and sampling the uplink RF signal.
management.
The SFDR and ENOB at 160 Gigasample/s sampling rate
Cheaper, smaller size & simpler base stations.
are equal to 9.82 dB and 1.63, respectively.
Smaller cells: allocates higher bandwidth to end-users.
Future proof.
Green: Lower power radiated electromagnetic wave, Simulation Results and Conclusions
lower power consumption, fibre low
attenuation and loss.
Reduce the maintenance cost. The performance of DRoF link is investigated and compared with ARoF system over 15 and 20
Could be accommodated with passive optical network kilometres standard single mode fibre length. PADCs performance is affected by the lasers
(PON) Infrastructures. jitter, the nonlinearity of MZM, photonic amplifier and other photonic devices performance. In
Can use wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) the digital radio over fibre, the dynamic range is independent of the fibre length.
technique for improving the network
throughput.

Digital RoF & Integrated RoF System.

Digital RoF (DRoF) link can maintain the dynamic

range more independent than optical fibre
link distance.
The analogue RF signal digitized by using the Photonic
Analogue-to-Digital Converter (PADC). (Top) RF signal, (Bottom) Sampled optical signal.

Generated digitized-RF data stream and RF analogue

signal are transported over optical fibre
network by using WDM technique. The
photonic DAC of RF system at the base Eye diagram of 1 Gbps ASK modulated signal with 10 GHz carrier over 15
station or access point converts digital km ( Left) 20 km (Right) length of single mode fibre: (top) ARoF system,
(bottom) DRoF system.
photonic signals to its analogue optical
ENOB variation versus sampling rate.
modulated signal.