Full-duplex radio-over-fiber transport systems based on two modes injection-locked FP LD

Abstract A full-duplex radio-over-fiber (ROF) transport system based on two modes injection-locked Fabry–Perot laser diode (FP LD) is proposed and demonstrated. Performances over a 40-km standard single-mode fiber (SMF) full-duplex transmission were investigated. Good performances of bit error rate (BER) and error vector magnitude (EVM) were obtained in our proposed systems. Since our proposed systems use only one FP LD as light source for both down-link and up-link transmissions, it reveals a prominent alternative with advantages in simplicity and cost.