Coexistence of Analogue Radio and Digital Coherent Transmission Over Access/Metro Networks fibre for Bandwidth-Efficient Fronthaul Beyond 5G
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:
Dass, Devika; Slyne, Frank; Kilper, Dan; Barry, Liam; Ruffini, Marco
Abstract:
We experimentally study the coexistence of heterogeneous Analog Radio-over-fiber and Digital Coherent Optical signals transparently across a converged metro/PON network. Our simplified setup, based on RF generation by optical heterodyning, enables transmission of 5.8 Gb/s mmWave signals and 400Gb/s coherent optical, within the original ROADM channel bandwidth.