The invention discloses an OFDM radio-on-
fiber communication
system, which combines the radio-on-
fiber communication technology with
wireless OFDM technology, utilizes anti-multipath time-
delay characteristic of OFDM signals and the characteristic of lower transmission speed of
subcarrier and the like to
resist the influence of dispersion on signals in
optical fiber transmission and increases transmission distance. The OFDM
signal and the radio-frequency
sine wave signal are mixed to drive an
intensity modulator so as to lead the continuous optical wave of the
intensity modulator generated to a
distributed feedback laser to realize suppressing modulation of the carrier; the optical carrier loaded with the OFDM
signal is transmitted to a
base station by the optical carrier; at the
base station, firstly, a photoelectric
detector converts the optical
millimeter wave signal into the electric
millimeter wave signal and finally the modulation of the OFDM signal is realized. The OFDM-over-
fiber communication
system also can be realized by using a dual-
intensity modulator; the main working process is as follows: the
distributed feedback laser generates continuous optical wave; the
sine wave signal generated by a radio-frequency
signal source drives the dual-intensity modulator; the suppressing modulation of the carrier is realized to the continuous optical wave; the OFDM signal generation module generates the OFDM signal; a single-arm intensity modulator loads the OFDM signal to the optical
millimeter wave with suppressed carrier; and finally the OFDM signal is transmitted to the
base station by the
optical fiber. The millimeter wave generation method of the optical carrier OFDM signal and the radio-on-fiber communication
system composed thereby can
resist the influence of on signals in the
optical fiber transmission, increase the transmission distance and reduce the cost of long-distance communication system.