Design and simulation of a radio over fiber system with chromatic dispersion and polarisation mode dispersion compensation

Radio over Fiber (ROF) is an innovating technology that provides provision for the flourishment of broadband wireless service which combines robust transport technologies and flexible optical routing. ROF is an integration of wireless and fiber optic networks, which has a range of applications including last mile solutions, extension of existing radio coverage and capacity, etc. A Nematic type LCPCF (Liquid Crystal Photonic Crystal Fiber) is used, which has low loss, light weight, large bandwidth characteristics, small size and low cable cost which makes it ideal and most flexible solution for efficiently transporting radio signals to remotely located antenna sites in a wireless network. Equalization techniques are considered for electronic compensation of Chromatic Dispersion (CD) and Polarization Mode Dispersion (PMD) in a dually polarized coherent ROF communication system.