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 (formerly OSA) , 2022. Vol. 47, no 17, p. 4307-4310
Keywords [en]
5G mobile communication systems, Delta sigma modulation, Digital to analog conversion, Light transmission, Modulators, Optical fibers, Radio transmission, Radio-over-fiber, Signal to noise ratio, Cell/B.E, Delta-sigma modulation, High capacity, High-capacity, Hybrid fiber, Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing, Radio access networks, Small cells, Tera Hertz, Urban areas, Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing
National Category
Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:ri:diva-60410DOI: 10.1364/OL.466080Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85137138509OAI: oai:DiVA.org:ri-60410DiVA, id: diva2:1704982
Note
Funding details: 2020LC0AD01; Funding details: National Natural Science Foundation of China, NSFC, 62101483; Funding details: Huawei Technologies, 2019-05197; Funding details: Vetenskapsrådet, VR; Funding details: National Key Research and Development Program of China, NKRDPC, 2020YFB1805700; Funding text 1: Funding. National Key Research and Development Program of China (2020YFB1805700); National Natural Science Foundation of China (62101483); Zhejiang Lab (2020LC0AD01); Huawei Technologies; Veten-skapsrådet (2019-05197).; Funding text 2: National Key Research and Development Program of China (2020YFB1805700); National Natural Science Foundation of China (62101483); Zhejiang Lab (2020LC0AD01); Huawei Technologies; Vetenskapsrådet (2019-05197).
2022-10-202022-10-202024-03-05Bibliographically approved