100-GHz Radio and Power Over Fiber Transmission Through Multicore Fiber Using Optical-to-Radio Converter

Abstract

We designed and fabricated a 100-GHz range integrated photoreceiver with zero-bias operational uni-traveling-carrier photodiode and pseudomorphic high electron mobility transistor amplifier, which performed the roles of photonic power generation and 100-GHz RF signal generation. Using the integrated photoreceiver, high data rate radio- and power-over-fiber transmission through multicore fiber communication was demonstrated. Subsequently, a bit error rate of 1×10 <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">-3</sup> could be achieved with 12 Gb/s, orthogonal frequency division multiplexing, 16 quadrature amplitude modulation, and an intermediate frequency of 92 GHz. The crosstalk issue in radio- and power-over-fiber transmission through multicore fiber was discussed.