We experimentally investigate the transmission performance of 60-GHz signals over standard single-mode fiber （SSMF） and wireless links at different bit rates. Experimental results show that in a transmission of over 10-km SSMF and 1.3-m wireless link, bit rate reaches up to 5 Gb/s and bit error rate （BER） is less than 10-4 . The main limiting factor in such radio-over-fiber （ROF） systems is intersymbol interferences caused by the so-called walk-off effect when BER is below 10 8 . In addition, a transmission of over 20-km SSMF without chromatic dispersion compensation is briefly investigated. For a BER of 10 8 , the optical penalty is 2 dB.
Turbo-coded 1.25-Gb/s orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing （OFDM） signals in 60-GHz radio-over-fiber system are demonstrated.It can overcome impairments in fibers and extend transmission distance.Experimental results show that the transmission distance of turbo-coded OFDM signals at 1.25 Gb/s with coding （pure bit rate of 830 Mb/s） can be extended by over 30%.
A novel architecture of converged radio-over-fiber （RoF） and wavelength division multiplexed passive optical network （WDM-PON） system, namely RoF-WDM-PON, is demonstrated. 20-GHz 1-Gb/s radio frequency （RF） signals and 1-Gb/s baseband （BB） signals are simultaneously generated and transmitted using optical carrier suppression （OCS） modulation techniques. The proposed scheme is compatible with the conventional RoF and PON system. 25-km single-mode fiber （SMF） transmission is successfully achieved.
