EDA-RoF: Elastic Digital-Analog Radio-Over-Fiber (RoF) Modulation and Demodulation Architecture Enabling Seamless Transition Between Analog RoF and Digital RoF

2025/12/23 by Xiaobo Zeng, Zeng, Xiaobo, Pan Liu +5
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies #Advanced Photonic Communication Systems #FOS: Electrical engineering #Signal Processing (eess.SP) #Thermal Radiation and Cooling Technologies #electronic engineering #information engineering

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2512.20018

openalex publication_date 2025/12/23 · openalex created_date 2025/12/25 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

We propose and demonstrate an elastic digital-analog radio-over-fiber (RoF) modulation and demodulation architecture, seamlessly bridging A-RoF and D-RoF solutions, achieving quasilinear SNR scaling with respect to 1/η, and evidenced by R²=0.9908.

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