Optical CS-DSB Schemes for 5G mmW Fronthaul Seamless Transmission

[EN] This paper describes the experimental demonstration of the hybrid optical/millimeter wave signal generation and transmission over combined optical fiber and free space optics fronthaul network with a seamless antenna link. An electrical bandpass filter is used to filter out the spectrum after p...

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Autores: Bohata, Jan, Vallejo-Castro, Luis, Zvanovec, Stanislav, Ortega Tamarit, Beatriz|||0000-0003-1196-4756
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)
Repositorio:RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:riunet.upv.es:10251/194319
Acceso en línea:https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/194319
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Optical fiber
Free space optics
5G
Fronthaul
Millimeter wave
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Sumario:[EN] This paper describes the experimental demonstration of the hybrid optical/millimeter wave signal generation and transmission over combined optical fiber and free space optics fronthaul network with a seamless antenna link. An electrical bandpass filter is used to filter out the spectrum after photodetection in order to realize the seamless antenna transmission. The successful transmission of 64/256-quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) 5G signal with up to 200 MHz bandwidth is presented by using two different setups: one is based on two Mach-Zehnder modulators (MZM) and the other employs a directly modulated laser (DML) to provide more cost efficient fronthaul solution. The DML based approach reveals mildly better performance in comparison to the MZMs in terms of higher achieved signal-to-noise ratio and lower error vector magnitude (EVM). More specifically, the best signal-to-noise ratio and EVM achieved with the DML based setup has been 31.5 dB and 3. 3%, respectively, compared to 30.3 dB and 3.8% with the MZMs based setup while transmitting 256-QAM signal with 100 MHz bandwidth. However, both setups kept the EVM well below the given 9% and 4.5% limit for 64- and 256-QAM, respectively.