A phase-modulated direct-detection fiber optical CATV transport system

A fiber optical CATV transport system based on phase modulation (PM) and direct-detection schemes to reduce noise and distortion induced by systems is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. The architecture of the proposed systems is simplified by the fiber-dispersion-induced PM-to-intensity modulation (IM) conversion technique. As a result, the optical signal is detected directly by a photodiode (PD), without using the sophisticated and expensive delay interferometer (DI). Impressive performances of carrier-to-noise ratio (CNR), composite second-order (CSO), and composite triple beat (CTB) were obtained in our proposed systems over a 100-km single-mode fiber (SMF) transport.