Abstract
In this paper, we present and experimentally demonstrate a digital-radio-over-fiber (D-RoF) architecture based on differential pulse code modulation (DPCM) and space division multiplexing (SDM). At low quantization resolution, DPCM can effectively reduce quantization noise and obtain significant signal-to-quantization noise ratio (SQNR) gain. We experimentally study the 7-core and 8-core multicore fiber transmission of 64-ary quadrature amplitude modulation (64QAM) orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) signals with a bandwidth of 100 MHz in a fiber-wireless hybrid transmission link. Compared to PCM-based D-RoF, the error vector magnitude (EVM) performance in the DPCM-based D-RoF is effectively improved when the quantization bits (QBs) are 3–5 bits. In particular, when the QB is 3 bits, the EVM of the DPCM-based D-RoF is 6.5% and 7% lower than that of the PCM-based system in 7-core- and 8-core-multicore fiber-wireless hybrid transmission links, respectively.
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