Title :
Fiber-Wireless-Fiber Link for 128-Gb/s PDM-16QAM Signal Transmission at
-Band
Author :
Xinying Li ; Jianjun Yu ; Jiangnan Xiao ; Yuming Xu
Author_Institution :
Key Lab. for Inf. Sci. of Electromagn. Waves, Fudan Univ., Shanghai, China
Abstract :
We propose and experimentally demonstrate a W-band seamlessly integrated fiber-wireless-fiber transmission system enabled by photonic millimeter-wave generation and demodulation techniques, in which up to 128-Gb/s (16-Gbd) polarization division multiplexing 16-ary quadrature amplitude modulation (16QAM) signal can be first transmitted over 50-km single-mode fiber-28 (SMF-28), then delivered over 1-m × 2 multiple-input multiple-output wireless link at 100 GHz and finally transmitted over another 50-km SMF-28 with a bit-error ratio less than the third-generation soft-decision forward-error-correction threshold of 2 × 10-2. The proposed system can be well compatible with high-level QAM and is suited to large-capacity high-spectral-efficiency fiber-wireless integration communication.
Keywords :
demodulation; forward error correction; integrated optics; microwave photonics; millimetre wave generation; optical fibre communication; optical fibre polarisation; optical harmonic generation; optical links; optical transmitters; quadrature amplitude modulation; W-band; bit rate 128 Gbit/s; bit-error ratio; distance 50 km; fiber-wireless-fiber link; frequency 100 GHz; high-spectral-efficiency fiber-wireless integration communication; multiple-input multiple-output wireless link; photonic millimeter-wave demodulation techniques; photonic millimeter-wave generation techniques; polarization division multiplexing 16-ary quadrature amplitude modulation signal transmission; single-mode fiber-28; third-generation soft-decision forward-error-correction threshold; Optical fiber communication; Optical fibers; Optical polarization; Optical receivers; Optical transmitters; Wireless communication; Fiber-wireless-fiber integration; W-band; photonic millimeter-wave (mm-wave) demodulation; polarization division multiplexing 16-ary quadrature amplitude modulation (PDM-16QAM);
Journal_Title :
Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/LPT.2014.2342711