Practical demonstration of spectrally efficient FDM millimeter-wave radio over fiber systems for 5G cellular networking

Spiros Mikroulis; Tongyang Xu; Izzat Darwazeh

doi:10.1117/12.2216230

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12 February 2016 Practical demonstration of spectrally efficient FDM millimeter-wave radio over fiber systems for 5G cellular networking

Spiros Mikroulis, Tongyang Xu, Izzat Darwazeh

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Proceedings Volume 9772, Broadband Access Communication Technologies X; 97720I (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2216230
Event: SPIE OPTO, 2016, San Francisco, California, United States

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This work reports the first demonstration of spectrally efficient frequency division multiplexed (SEFDM) signal transmission based on mm-wave radio over fiber (RoF) technology. Such systems aim to satisfy the beyond 4G (5G) demands of low cost, low energy, millimeter-wave carrier frequencies and high spectral efficiency. The proposed radio over fiber topology, using passive optical network (PON) infrastructure and low-cost multimode fiber (MMF), is analyzed and a proof-of-concept SEFDM radio over 250m OM-1 MMF transmission with a 3m 60GHz wireless link is successfully demonstrated. Different systems are demonstrated, at raw data rates up to 3.7 Gb/s, showing SEFDM spectrum saving up to 40% relative to OFDM.

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Spiros Mikroulis, Tongyang Xu, and Izzat Darwazeh "Practical demonstration of spectrally efficient FDM millimeter-wave radio over fiber systems for 5G cellular networking", Proc. SPIE 9772, Broadband Access Communication Technologies X, 97720I (12 February 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2216230

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