Abstract

We experimentally investigate and theoretically analyze the performance of a multiband orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (MB-OFDM) ultrawideband (UWB) wireless signal over fiber system considering the impact of laser relative intensity noise (RIN). Two types of RIN are considered: laser intrinsic RIN and laser phase-noise-converted RIN due to fiber dispersion. To reduce the impact of intrinsic RIN, laser output power of $2\mathrm{dBm}$ and beyond should be used. With the increase of fiber length and/or laser linewidth, UWB wireless signal over fiber is more degraded due to the converted RIN. For a given $0.6\mathrm{dB}$ degradation of error vector magnitude (EVM), the allowed laser linewidth is $30\mathrm{MHz}$ for $20\mathrm{km}$ of standard single-mode fiber for the first three bands. However, the converted RIN has much greater impact on higher-frequency UWB channels, depending on fiber length. A laser with a linewidth of less than $1\mathrm{MHz}$ will ensure that the EVM penalty due to the converted RIN is less than $1\mathrm{dB}$ for all 14 bands of MB-OFDM UWB.

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