Transmission of ultra wide band radio using multimode radio-over-fiber system

Existing regulatory restricts wireless range of ultra wide band (UWB) radio communication distances to several tens of meters due to its low transmit power. This paper introduces multimode radio-over-fiber (ROF) to extend the range of wireless UWB radios. In this work, UWB pulses are transmitted over multimode RoF to realise a low cost distributed antenna system. Single mode RoF tends to be expensive. Experimental BER results over various transmission distances will be presented.