Toward Terabit Digital Radio over Fiber Systems: Architecture and Key Technologies
Journal article, 2019
To support massive deployment of broadband radio applications, such as 5G and high-definition videos for terrestrial televisions, large system capacity and high spectrum efficiency are highly demanded in radio over fiber (RoF) systems. In this article, we propose a terabit digital RoF system capable of providing high-speed transmission, where multicore fiber (MCF) is introduced for the access segment between the central unit and remote unit. Two key technologies that greatly enhance system capacity and spectrum efficiency, namely MCF enabled self-homodyne detection and compressed quantization, are demonstrated.
Author
Lu Zhang
Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Aleksejs Udalcovs
RISE Research Institutes of Sweden
Rui Lin
Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
Oskars Ozolins
RISE Research Institutes of Sweden
Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
Xiaodan Pang
Infinera Metro HW
Lin Gan
HUST
Richard Schatz
Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
Ming Tang
Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Songnian Fu
Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Deming Liu
Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Weijun Tong
Yangtze Optical Fibre and Cable Company Ltd (YOFC)
Sergei Popov
Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
Gunnar Jacobsen
Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
RISE Research Institutes of Sweden
Weisheng Hu
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Shilin Xiao
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Jiajia Chen
Chalmers, Electrical Engineering, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks
Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
IEEE Communications Magazine
0163-6804 (ISSN) 15581896 (eISSN)
Vol. 57 4 131-137Subject Categories
Telecommunications
Communication Systems
Computer Systems
DOI
10.1109/MCOM.2019.1800426