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Photonic-Assisted mm-Wave and THz Wireless Transmission towards 100 Gbit/s Data Rate

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Abstract

This paper presents photonic-assisted 60 GHz mm-wave and 325 GHz system approaches that enable the transmission of spectral-efficient and high data rate signals over fiber and over air. First, we focus on generic channel characteristics within the mm-wave 60 GHz band and at the terahertz (THz) band around 325 GHz. Next, for generating the high data rate baseband signals, we present a technical solution for constructing an extreme bandwidth arbitrary waveform generator (AWG). We then report the development of a novel coherent photonic mixer (CPX) module for direct optic-to-RF conversion of extreme wideband optical signals, with a>5 dB higher conversion gain compared to conventional photodiodes. Finally, we experimentally demonstrate record spectral efficient wireless transmission for both bands. The achieved spectral efficiencies reach 10 bit/s/Hz for the 60 GHz band and 6 bit/s/Hz for the 325 GHz band. The maximum data rate transmitted at THz frequencies in the 325 GHz band is 59 Gbit/s using a 64-QAM-OFDM modulation format and a 10 GHz wide data signal.

Acknowledgements

This work was supported by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) within the DFG-SPP 1655 programm “Wireless 100 Gbit/s and beyond”. The technological development of the CPX by ZHO/OE and FINISAR Germany, was support by the European Commission within the IPHOBAC-NG (www.iphobac-ng.eu) and FiWiN5G (http://www.fiwin5g.eu) projects. ZHO/OE furthermore acknowledges support by CORNING Inc., USA in OFDM-QAM digital signal processing.

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Received: 2017-7-14
Published Online: 2017-8-9
Published in Print: 2017-9-26

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