The Information Rate of Fiber-Wireless Communication Systems Based on Photonic Generation of RF Signals
Abstract
High-capacity fiber-wireless communication systems operating at high frequencies increasingly rely on photonic generation of radio-frequency (RF) signals. In these systems, optical signals are transmitted over optical fibers and detected by photodetectors, where RF signals are generated at frequencies equal to the difference between the optical carrier frequencies. A major performance-limiting impairment is the phase noise of the generated RF signals, which originates from the phase noise of the optical sources. In this paper, we develop comprehensive probabilistic models for the two principal configurations of fiber-wireless communication systems employing photonic RF generation. Based on these models, we propose an efficient numerical framework for calculating the information rate (IR). Numerical simulations are performed to validate the efficiency of the proposed algorithm and the results provide design guidelines for high-performance fiber-wireless systems.
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BibTeX
@misc{huang2026information,
title = {{The Information Rate of Fiber-Wireless Communication Systems Based on Photonic Generation of RF Signals}},
author = {Long Huang and Jianping Yao},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2607.25551},
eprint = {2607.25551},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.25551},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - The Information Rate of Fiber-Wireless Communication Systems Based on Photonic Generation of RF Signals
AU - Long Huang
AU - Jianping Yao
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/17
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2607.25551
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.25551
AB - High-capacity fiber-wireless communication systems operating at high frequencies increasingly rely on photonic generation of radio-frequency (RF) signals. In these systems, optical signals are transmitted over optical fibers and detected by photodetectors, where RF signals are generated at frequencies equal to the difference between the optical carrier frequencies. A major performance-limiting impairment is the phase noise of the generated RF signals, which originates from the phase noise of the optical sources. In this paper, we develop comprehensive probabilistic models for the two principal configurations of fiber-wireless communication systems employing photonic RF generation. Based on these models, we propose an efficient numerical framework for calculating the information rate (IR). Numerical simulations are performed to validate the efficiency of the proposed algorithm and the results provide design guidelines for high-performance fiber-wireless systems.
ER -