Abstract
A bi-directional fiber-free-space optical (FSO)-fifth-generation (5G) millimeter-wave (MMW)/5G new radio (NR) sub-THz convergence with intensity-modulated downlink 40 Gbit/s/100 GHz 5G NR sub-THz signals (x- and y-polarizations), and phase-modulated uplink 10 Gbit/s/28 GHz and 10 Gbit/s/24 GHz 5G MMW signals is established practicably, by adopting a parallel/orthogonally polarized dual-carrier mechanism, phase modulators, and remote injection locking distributed feedback laser diodes (DFB LDs) for demonstration. It is a pioneering work to realize a bi-directional fiber-FSO-5G MMW/5G NR sub-THz convergence for providing high downlink/uplink traffic capacity with accepted transmission performance. Through 20 km single-mode fiber transmission, 500 m free-space link, and 1 m/4 m RF wireless transport, impressively low bit error rate of 10−9 and accepted PAM4/NRZ eye diagrams are acquired. Such established bi-directional fiber-FSO-5G MMW/5G NR sub-THz convergence accelerates a feasible solution that can afford high traffic capacity with qualified transmission performance, and develops the state achieved by the incorporation of optical fiber network with FSO-5G MMW/5G NR sub-THz convergence. It discloses a brilliant convergence developed for bi-directional high-speed and long-reach transmission with given transmission performance.
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