Hybrid fiber-THz fronthaul supporting up to 16384-QAM-OFDM with the delta-sigma modulationShow others and affiliations
2022 (English)In: Optics Letters, ISSN 0146-9592, E-ISSN 1539-4794, Vol. 47, no 17, p. 4307-4310Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
With the progress of high-capacity radio access networks, ultra-dense small cells are rapidly being deployed in urban areas. As a result, the deployment of a large number of optical fibers in urban areas becomes a severe issue. In this Letter, we propose a hybrid fiber-terahertz (THz) mobile fronthaul system supporting flexible and high-order wireless signal transmission with the delta-sigma modulation. The photonic THz transmission is used as the seamless extension of fiber-based fronthaul in small cells. A 20-Gbit/s digital fiber-THz fronthaul system is experimentally demonstrated to validate the proposed scheme, with 10-km optical fiber transmission and 300-GHz wireless relay. Carrier aggregation of up to 10 40-MHz and 60-MHz 5G-new radio (5G-NR) channels at the radio carrier frequency of 3.9 GHz is reported. The design of quantization noise suppressed delta-sigma modulation enables the system to transmit orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) modulation up to 16384 order quadrate amplitude modulation (QAM) mapping with the error vector magnitude (EVM) below 0.5%.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Optica Publishing Group , 2022. Vol. 47, no 17, p. 4307-4310
National Category
Telecommunications
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-322893DOI: 10.1364/OL.466080ISI: 000899611100008PubMedID: 36048640Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85137138509OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-322893DiVA, id: diva2:1725474
Note
QC 20230807
2023-01-112023-01-112024-03-15Bibliographically approved