Hybrid Fiber-THz Fronthaul Supporting up to 16384QAM-OFDM with Delta-Sigma Modulation
Optics Letters 2022
Lu Zhang, Vjačeslavs Bobrovs, Zefeng Chen, Hongqi Zhang, Zuomin Yang, Xiaodan Pang, Oskars Ozoliņš, Xianbin Yu, Yixin Wu, Xiongbin Yu

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 20Gbit/s digital fiber-THz fronthaul system is experimentally demonstrated to validate the proposed scheme, with 10km optical fiber transmission and 300GHz wireless relay. Carrier aggregation of up to 10 40MHz and 60MHz 5G-new radio (5G-NR) channels at the radio carrier frequency at 3.9GHz is reported. With the design of quantization noise suppressed delta-sigma modulation, the supported quadrate amplitude modulation (QAM) order is up to 16384 with the error vector magnitude (EVM) below 0.5%.


DOI
10.1364/OL.466080
Hyperlink
https://opg.optica.org/ol/fulltext.cfm?uri=ol-47-17-4307&id=492834

Zhang, L., Bobrovs, V., Chen, Z., Zhang, H., Yang, Z., Pang, X., Ozoliņš, O., Yu, X., Wu, Y., Yu, X. Hybrid Fiber-THz Fronthaul Supporting up to 16384QAM-OFDM with Delta-Sigma Modulation. Optics Letters, 2022, Vol. 47, No. 16, pp.4307-4310. ISSN 0146-9592. e-ISSN 1539-4794. Available from: doi:10.1364/OL.466080

Publication language
English (en)
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