Radio-on-terahertz over fiber system for future mobile fronthauling

Author

Kanno, Atsushi ; Pham Tien Dat ; Hosako, Iwao ; Kawanishi, Tetsuya ; Ogawa, Hiroyo

Author_Institution

Nat. Inst. of Inf. & Commun. Technol., Koganei, Japan

fYear

2014

fDate

8-12 Dec. 2014

Firstpage

2218

Lastpage

2222

Abstract

The technology of encapsulating a microwave signal into a terahertz carrier and an optical signal is proposed and demonstrated experimentally. Broad bandwidth terahertz radio can encapsulate existing microwave services, including advanced mobile communication signals, by using photonics technology. The concept of radio-on-terahertz-over-fiber helps to realize the future design of mobile fronthaul links. These links will have seamless connectivity between radio and optical networks because of the low latency of the links, which results from the use of analog signal transmission technology.

Keywords

microwave links; microwave photonics; mobile communication; optical fibre networks; optical links; radio-over-fibre; analog signal transmission technology; microwave signal encapsulation; mobile communication signal; mobile fronthaul link; mobile fronthauling; optical network; optical signal; photonics technology; radio network; radio-on-terahertz over fiber system; Bandwidth; Optical attenuators; Optical interferometry; Optical modulation; Optical polarization; Optical transmitters;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), 2014 IEEE

Conference_Location

Austin, TX

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GLOCOM.2014.7037137

Filename

7037137