15 June 2022 Effect of erbium-doped fiber amplifier loss compensation on 5G new radio millimeter-wave seamless transmission over analog fiber and free space optical fronthaul at 60 GHz
Jan Spácil, Jan Bohata, Dong-Nhat Nguyen, Miloš Mazánek, Stanislav Zvánovec
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Abstract

We demonstrate a fifth generation (5G) new radio (NR) signal transmitted by an analog optical and seamless antenna wireless connection at the frequency band of 60 GHz to exploit a high-frequency unlicensed frequency range. An optical frequency doubling technique, using two Mach–Zehnder modulators operating in a carrier suppressed and linear regime, respectively, was adopted to obtain the desired millimeter wave frequency at the photodetector’s output. The proposed system was tested with the 5G NR signals with a maximum bandwidth of 200 MHz and 64 quadrature amplitude modulation format. It was shown that the signal transmitted through the optical fiber and free space optical link with 1 m long seamless antenna transmission at 62 GHz was capable of meeting the signal quality requirements in terms of error vector magnitude. Moreover, the system phase noise performance showed an almost negligible difference between the various system configurations.

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Jan Spácil, Jan Bohata, Dong-Nhat Nguyen, Miloš Mazánek, and Stanislav Zvánovec "Effect of erbium-doped fiber amplifier loss compensation on 5G new radio millimeter-wave seamless transmission over analog fiber and free space optical fronthaul at 60 GHz," Optical Engineering 61(6), 066104 (15 June 2022). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.61.6.066104
Received: 17 February 2022; Accepted: 24 May 2022; Published: 15 June 2022
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KEYWORDS
Free space optics

Radio over Fiber

Antennas

Optical amplifiers

Signal to noise ratio

Extremely high frequency

Analog electronics

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