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 4 131-137

Subject Categories

Telecommunications

Communication Systems

Computer Systems

DOI

10.1109/MCOM.2019.1800426

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