Abstract

This Letter demonstrates a high-speed fiber–terahertz–fiber system in the 355-GHz band using stable optical frequency comb generation and a photonics-enabled receiver. At the transmitter, a single dual-drive Mach–Zehnder modulator is employed to generate a frequency comb by driving the modulator under an optimal condition. At the antenna site, a photonics-enabled receiver consisting of an optical local oscillator signal generator, a frequency doubler, and an electronic mixer is used to downconvert the terahertz-wave signal to the microwave band. Simple intensity modulation and a direct detection method are used for transmitting the downconverted signal to the receiver over the second fiber link. To demonstrate the proof of concept, we transmitted a 16-quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing signal over a system consisting of two radio-over-fiber links and a 4 m wireless link in the 355-GHz band and achieved a line rate of 60 Gb/s. We also successfully transmitted a 16-QAM subcarrier multiplexing single-carrier signal over the system and achieved a capacity of 50 Gb/s. The proposed system can facilitate the deployment of ultra-dense small cells in high-frequency bands in beyond-5G networks.

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