Multilevel Pulse Width Modulation Fibre Optic Transmission for Next Generation Mobile Fronthaul

Conference: ECOC 2016 - 42nd European Conference on Optical Communication
09/18/2016 - 09/22/2016 at Düsseldorf, Deutschland

Proceedings: ECOC 2016

Pages: 3Language: englishTyp: PDF

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Authors:
Parolari, Paola; Gatto, Alberto; Combi, Lorenzo; Boffi, Pierpaolo; Martinelli, Mario; Spagnolini, Umberto (Politecnico di Milano, Dip. Elettronica Informazione e Bioingegneria, Via Ponzio 34/5, 20133 Milano, Italy)

Abstract:
Multilevel pulse width modulation for optical C-RAN fronthaul is proved and compared with standard pulse width modulation for aggregated LTE channels. Transmission over 7.5-km SSMF in a WDM PON fronthaul network is experimentally demonstrated for 16 LTE-64QAM aggregated channels.