Abstract
The digital-analog radio-over-fiber (DA-RoF) scheme offers a high-fidelity and spectrally efficient solution for future mobile fronthaul. However, to be implemented in the low-cost directly modulated laser with direct detection (DML-DD) link, both the digital and analog parts in DA-RoF modulation would suffer from the composite second-order (CSO) and composite triple beat (CTB) caused by the chirp-dispersion interaction. In this Letter, we propose and experimentally demonstrate a computationally efficient composite triple beat cancellation (CTB-C) algorithm for DA-RoF fronthaul in the dispersion-uncompensated C-band DML-DD link. The CSO and CTB are suppressed at the receiver-side DSP based on the theoretical model of these nonlinear distortions. In the proof-of-concept experiment, a 1.2-dB improvement in the recovered signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is obtained with 5.5-GHz 1024-QAM orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) signal after 10-km standard single-mode fiber (SSMF) transmission. The proposed CTB-C technique does not require the training process and performs close to the Volterra-based feed-forward equalizer (VFE) under the complexity constraint.
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