EFFECT OF RF LINEWIDTH ON BER PERFORMANCE OF 64-QAM ROF

The optical and wireless communication systems integration will activate the potential capacity of photonic technology for providing the expected growth in interactive video, voice communication and data traffic services that are cost effec-tive and a green communication service. The last decade growth of the broadband internet projects the number of active users will grow to over 2 billion globally by the end of 2014. Enabling the abandoned capacity of photonic signal processing is the promising solution for seamless transporta-tion of the future consumer traffic demand. One emerging technology applicable in high capacity, broadband millime-ter-wave access systems is Radio over Fiber also called Fi-ber To The Air (FTTA). In this paper, Optical SSB signal is specifically selected as it has tolerance for power degrada-tion due to dispersion effects over a length of fiber and BER (bit error rate) is evaluated in terms of RF line width and percentage of received power.