8 research outputs found
Optical and RF Metrology for 5G
Specification standards will soon be available for 5G mobile RF
communications. What optical and electrical metrology is needed or available to
support the development of the supporting optical communication systems? Device
measurement, digital oscilloscope impairments and improving system resolution
are discussed.Comment: 2017 IEEE Photonics Society Summer Topical Meeting Series (SUM
Pilot-tone assisted 16-QAM photonic wireless bridge operating at 250 GHz
A photonic wireless bridge operating at a carrier frequency of 250 GHz is
proposed and demonstrated. To mitigate the phase noise of the free-running
lasers present in such a link, the tone-assisted carrier recovery is used.
Compared to the blind phase noise compensation (PNC) algorithm, this technique
exhibited penalties of 0.15 dB and 0.46 dB when used with aggregated Lorentzian
linewidths of 28 kHz and 359 kHz, respectively, and 20 GBd 16-quadrature
amplitude modulation (QAM) signals. The wireless bridge is also demonstrated in
a wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) scenario, where 5 optical channels are
generated and sent to the Tx remote antenna unit (RAU). In this configuration,
the full band from 224 GHz to 294 GHz is used. Finally, a 50 Gbit/s
transmission is achieved with the proposed wireless bridge in single channel
configuration. The wireless transmission distance is limited to 10 cm due to
the low power emitted by the uni-travelling carrier photodiode used in the
experiments. However, link budget calculations based on state-of-the-art THz
technology show that distances >1000 m can be achieved with this approach.Comment: 13 pages, in Journal of Lightwave Technolog
Estimation of BER from Error Vector Magnitude for Optical Coherent Systems
This paper presents the estimation of bit error ratio (BER) from error vector magnitude (EVM) for M-ary quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) formats in optical coherent systems employing carrier phase recovery with differential decoding to compensate for laser phase noise. Simulation results show that the relationship to estimate BER from EVM analysis for data-aided reception can also be applied to nondata-aided reception with a correction factor for different combined linewidth symbol duration product at the target BER of 10 − 3 . It is demonstrated that the calibrated BER, which would otherwise be underestimated without the correction factor, can reliably monitor the performance of optical coherent systems near the target BER for quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK), 16-QAM, and 64-QAM