Optical beamforming networks for millimeter-wave wireless communications

F Duan, Y Guo, Z Gu, Y Yin, Y Wu, T Chen - Applied Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
With the rapid data growth driven by smart phone, high-definition television and virtual
reality/augmented reality devices and so on, the launched 5G and upcoming 6G wireless …

End-to-end real-time service provisioning over a SDN-controllable analog mmWave fiber-wireless 5G X-haul network

C Vagionas, R Maximidis, I Stratakos… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The current work presents the first experimental demonstration of real-time Ethernet (ETH)
trial services and 4K-Ultra High Definition (UHD) video application transmission over a 2λ …

Constant-envelope OFDM for power-efficient and nonlinearity-tolerant heterodyne MMW-RoF system with envelope detection

P Li, L Zhu, X Zou, W Pan, H Zhang… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The radio over fiber (RoF) system using optical heterodyne (OH) for broadband up-
conversion and envelope detection (ED) for phase-noise-insensitive down-conversion …

Optical intelligent reflecting surface for mixed dual-hop FSO and beamforming-based RF system in C-RAN

W Pang, P Wang, M Han, S Li, P Yang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Optical intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is an emerging and low-cost technology that can
establish a stable communication route in free space optical (FSO) transmission …

End-to-end demonstration of fiber-wireless fronthaul networks using a hybrid multi-IF-over-fiber and radio-over-fiber system

HY Kao, S Ishimura, K Tanaka… - IEEE Photonics …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper reports an end-to-end demonstration of a fiber-wireless mobile fronthaul (MFH)
network based on hybrid intermediate-frequency-over-fiber (IFoF) and radio-over-fiber (RoF) …

A 51 Gb/s Reconfigurable mmWave fiber-wireless C-RAN supporting 5G/6G MNO network sharing

R Maximidis, C Vagionas, G Kalfas… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The growing demand for ubiquitous broadband connectivity in 5G/6G Radio Access
Networks (RANs) has turned Centralized RAN (C-RAN) and reconfigurable Point-to …

Reconfigurable optical crosshaul architecture for 6G radio access networks

Y Tao, C Ranaweera, S Edirisinghe, C Lim… - Journal of Optical …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
The radio access network (RAN) architecture is undergoing a significant evolution to support
the next-generation mobile networks and their emerging applications. To realize scalable …

Experimental demonstration of soft-ROADMS with dual-arm drop elements for future optical-wireless converged access networks

OFA Gonem, RP Giddings… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Digital signal processing (DSP)-enabled soft reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexers
(Soft-ROADMs) offer flexible add/drop optical switching at wavelength, sub-wavelength and …

Comparison of silicon lattice-filter-based O-band 1× 8 (de) multiplexers with flat and Gaussian-like passbands

N Ning, X Wang, H Yu, Q Huang, Y Wang… - IEEE Photonics …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Based on cascaded Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) lattice filters, we demonstrate and
compare silicon O-band 8-channel (de-) multiplexers with flat and Gaussian-like passbands …

Optical upconversion of OFDM signals for next generation fronthauling using frequency doubling and quadrupling

SJ Sreeraj, B Lakshman, R Ganti, A Nirmalathas… - IEEE …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Fronthaul data rates in case of millimeter wave (mmWave) wireless systems scale up to
several Gbps in the currently deployed digitized radio over fiber solutions, resulting in large …