Abstract

We design a specific cascade least mean square (LMS) equalizer and to the best of our knowledge, it is the first time this kind of equalizer has been employed for 60-GHz millimeter-wave (mm-wave) radio over fiber (RoF) system. The proposed cascade LMS equalizer consists of two sub-equalizers which are designated for optical and wireless channel compensations, respectively. We control the linear and nonlinear factors originated from optical link and wireless link separately. The cascade equalization scheme can keep the nonlinear distortions of the RoF system in a low degree. We theoretically and experimentally investigate the parameters of the two sub-equalizers to reach their best performances. The experiment results show that the cascade equalization scheme has a faster convergence speed. It needs a training sequence with a length of 10000 to reach its stable status, which is only half as long as the traditional LMS equalizer needs. With the utility of a proposed equalizer, the 60-GHz RoF system can successfully transmit 5-Gbps BPSK signal over 10-km fiber and 1.2-m wireless link under forward error correction (FEC) limit 10-3. An improvement of 4dBm and 1dBm in power sensitivity at BER 10-3 over traditional LMS equalizer can be observed when the signals are transmitted through Back-to-Back (BTB) and 10-km fiber 1.2-m wireless links, respectively.

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