Enabling Low-Cost Fronthaul Transmission with 4Gbps VCSEL-APD Free Space Optic Link

Conference: ECOC 2024 - 50th European Conference on Optical Communication
09/22/2024 - 09/26/2024 at Frankfurt, Germany

Proceedings: ITG-Fb. 317: ECOC 2024

Pages: 4Language: englishTyp: PDF

Authors:
Li, Tongyun; Ali, Wajahat; Liu, Yi; Chen, Rui; Crisp, Michael; Penty, Richard

Abstract:
real-time VCSEL-APD optical wireless digitized RF fronthaul is demonstrated, achieving a >40dB RF dynamic range, <1.6% EVM and 160MHz RF bandwidth over a 10m optical wireless link with a 4Gbps underlying data rate. A relaxed alignment tolerance is suitable for cell-free MIMO deployment.