CATV/ROF transport systems based on light injection/optoelectronic feedback techniques and photonic crystal fiber

A directly modulated CATV/radio-on-fiber (ROF) transport system based on light injection and optoelectronic feedback techniques, and photonic crystal fiber (PCF) is proposed and demonstrated. Excellent performances of carrier-to-noise ratio (CNR), composite second order (CSO) and composite triple beat (CTB) were obtained for CATV band; as well as low bit error rate (BER) and third order intermodulation distortion to carrier ratio (IMD3/C) values were achieved for ROF band. This demonstrated that such a CATV/ROF transport system is very attractive for the fiber backbone applications.