In this paper, a new 5G Passive Optical Network (5G-PON) employing all-optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (AO-OFDM) is proposed in hybrid bidirectional standard single mode fiber (SSMF)/free space optical (FSO). Additionally, an optical frequency generator (OFG) source is utilized. The proposed model is simulated using VPI photonics software. Analytical modeling and simulations have been conducted for a new approach to generate OFG by cascaded two-frequency modulators and one electro-absorption modulator. A sinusoidal RF signal source is utilized to drive all these modulators. The results reveal that 64 optical multiplexed carriers with a frequency spacing of 30 GHz are generated. These optical carriers have power variations of dB. Moreover, the center wavelength of the generated OFG can be tuned from 1300 nm for upstream transmission to 1577 nm for downstream transmission in the proposed 5G-PON. The proposed network achieves 960 Gbps and 10 Gbps for the downstream and upstream directions, respectively, under different turbulence effects. Furthermore, when 32 AO-OFDM channels are used, the simulation results show that the proposed model can achieve a SSMF length and FSO propagation ranges of 20 km and 2 km, respectively, with bit error rate (BER) ( ).
