As the demand for fiber optical data transmission systems and other type of applications, which require optical media, like optical sensing increases, the unauthorized parties are becoming increasingly interested in such systems. Also, with such demand, more complex optical systems are required; thus, the network infrastructure is becoming more crowded. It is vital to economize on the available resources and infrastructure to ensure the needs of all interested business, governmental or end-user sides. Therefore, the present research focuses on the development of a unified hybrid optical system. The developed hybrid optical transmission system adds additional protection to the channels, allows for the unification of standard optical data transmission channels, optical sensors and spectrally hidden data transmission channel systems, and increases the efficiency of the optical components used.
Current paper characterizes the performance of the three-radio-frequency-channels, orthogonal-frequency-division-multiplexed (OFDM) radio-over-fiber (RoF) transmission system in terms of error-vector-magnitude and received optical signal power for a typical 10 GHz receiver obtained by the comprehensive simulations. The impact of the transmitted OFDM channels' signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is also considered. We demonstrate that the SNR decrease from 40 dB to 25 dB results in an error vector magnitude (EVM) increase of up to 4 %. Furthermore, we propose the approach for allowing adjusting these results to other receiver sensitivity and responsivity values by introducing a delta in received optical signal power eliminating additional simulation or complicated calculations. The feasibility of the adjustments with a precision of up to 0.001% of the EVM is proved.
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