TY - CONF

T1 - Soft-ROADM-enabled Seamlessly Converged Optical-Wireless Access Networks with Free-Running Laser-based Tunable mmWave Generation and RF Envelope Detection

AU - Vallejo Castro, Luis

AU - Gonem, Omaro

AU - Jin, Wei

AU - Giddings, Roger

AU - Tang, Jianming

PY - 2024/3/28

Y1 - 2024/3/28

N2 - Incorporating O-E-O conversion-free Soft-ROADMs and free-running laser-based tunable mmWavegenerations with RF envelope detection, a cost-effective optical-wireless-converged RAN supporting flexible ultra-dense BBU-UE connectivity without O-E-O conversion and DSPs at anyintermediate nodes is proposed and experimentallydemonstrated, achieving 2×2.4-Gbit/s dynamic connections over10-km fiber and 2-m @38GHz mmWave transmissions

AB - Incorporating O-E-O conversion-free Soft-ROADMs and free-running laser-based tunable mmWavegenerations with RF envelope detection, a cost-effective optical-wireless-converged RAN supporting flexible ultra-dense BBU-UE connectivity without O-E-O conversion and DSPs at anyintermediate nodes is proposed and experimentallydemonstrated, achieving 2×2.4-Gbit/s dynamic connections over10-km fiber and 2-m @38GHz mmWave transmissions

M3 - Paper

T2 - 29th Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference 2024 (OECC2024).

Y2 - 30 June 2024 through 4 July 2024

ER -