40 Gb/s W-band (75-110 GHz) 16-QAM radio-over-fiber signal generation and its wireless transmission

Atsushi Kanno; Keizo Inagaki; Isao Morohashi; Takahide Sakamoto; Toshiaki Kuri; Iwao Hosako; Tetsuya Kawanishi; Yuki Yoshida; Ken-ichi Kitayama

doi:10.1364/OE.19.000B56

40 Gb/s W-band (75-110 GHz) 16-QAM radio-over-fiber signal generation and its wireless transmission

Opt Express. 2011 Dec 12;19(26):B56-63. doi: 10.1364/OE.19.000B56.

Authors

Atsushi Kanno¹, Keizo Inagaki, Isao Morohashi, Takahide Sakamoto, Toshiaki Kuri, Iwao Hosako, Tetsuya Kawanishi, Yuki Yoshida, Ken-ichi Kitayama

Affiliation

¹ Photonic Network Research Institute, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, 4-2-1 Nukui-kitamachi, Koganei, Tokyo 184-8795, Japan. kanno@nict.go.jp

PMID: 22274070
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.000B56

Abstract

The generation of a 40-Gb/s 16-QAM radio-over-fiber (RoF) signal and its demodulation of the wireless signal transmitted over free space of 30 mm in W-band (75-110 GHz) is demonstrated. The 16-QAM signal is generated by a coherent polarization synthesis method using a dual-polarization QPSK modulator. A combination of the simple RoF generation and the versatile digital receiver technique is suitable for the proposed coherent optical/wireless seamless network.