An MPSK Millimeter-Wave Point-to-Point Link With Radio Over Fiber Synchronous Baseband Receiver
Journal article, 2022

This paper demonstrates a millimeter-wave point-to-point radio link of MPSK (QPSK, 8-PSK, and 16-PSK) modulation without using any analog to digital converter (ADC). The proposed point-to-point radio link, not only use the radio over fiber (RoF) concept to extend the transmit distance of the central unit and the remote radio unit, but also use the clock and data recovery (CDR) applied in the optical-electrical converter (OEC) to recover the MPSK intermediate frequency (IF) signals frequency offset. Compared with the traditional RoF link, the proposed point-to-point synchronous radio link eliminated the high-speed ADC requirement for the digital-intermediate-frequency-over-fiber (DIFoF) link, which can significantly reduce the complexity and the cost of the remote radio unit. Simultaneously, we have designed a simple symbol synchronization algorithm to realize the real-time point-to-point radio link on an Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). The proposed millimeter-wave radio link has successfully demonstrated 6 Gbps QPSK transmission and can tolerate a frequency offset up to 100 MHz.

Real-time systems

Field programmable gate arrays

synchronization

carrier recovery

Synchronization

Millimeter-wave

Frequency modulation

Optical transmitters

IFoF

Optical fiber communication

communication link

Radio links

Author

Weidong Zhang

Beijing Institute of Technology

Sining An

Chalmers, Microtechnology and Nanoscience (MC2), Microwave Electronics

Jianping An

Beijing Institute of Technology

Xiangyuan Bu

Beijing Institute of Technology

Zhongxia Simon He

Chalmers, Microtechnology and Nanoscience (MC2), Microwave Electronics

Journal of Lightwave Technology

0733-8724 (ISSN) 1558-2213 (eISSN)

Vol. 40 2 481-489

Subject Categories

Telecommunications

Signal Processing

Other Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering

DOI

10.1109/JLT.2021.3110374

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