Analog RoF Fronthaul Carrying 27.6-Tb/s CPRI-equivalent Rate and 512-QAM with Sideband Modulation for IQ Imbalance Separation and Bi-directional Transmission
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Zhu, Yixiao; Fang, Xiansong; Zhang, Chenbo; Xu, Yicheng; Zhuge, Qunbi; Xie, Xiaopeng; Hu, Weisheng; Zhang, Fan
- Source
- 2024 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC) Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2024. :1-3 Mar, 2024
- Subject
- Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Photonics and Electrooptics
Optical fibers
Phase modulation
Crosstalk
Bidirectional control
Amplitude modulation
Optical crosstalk
Optical fiber communication
- Language
We leverage sideband modulation-based bidirectional scheme to separate the transmitter-side IQ imbalance and boost the SNR to 30.8dB. We experimentally demonstrate highcapacity coherent analog RoF fronthaul achieving 27.6Tb/s(=12λ×2.089Tb/s) CPRI-equivalent rate and 512-QAM over 10-km SSMF.