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Real-time 100-GS/s sigma-delta modulator for all-digital radio-over-fiber transmission

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All-digital radio-over-fiber (RoF) transmission has attracted a significant amount of interest in digital-centric systems or centralized networks because it greatly simplifies the front-end hardware by using digital processing. The sigma-delta modulator (SDM)-based all-digital RoF approach pushes the digital signal processing as far as possible into the transmit chain. We present a real-time 100-GS/s fourth-order single-bit SDM for all-digital RoF transmission in the high-frequency band without the aid of analog/optical up-conversion. This is the fastest sigma-delta modulator reported and this is also the first real-time demonstration of sigma-delta-modulated RoF in the frequency band above 24 GHz. 4.68 Gb/s (2.34 Gb/s) 64-QAM is transported over 10-km standard single-mode fiber in the C-band with 6.46% (4.73%) error vector magnitude and 3.13 Gb/s 256-QAM can be even received in an optical back-to-back configuration. The carrier frequency can be digitally tuned at run-time, covering a wide frequency range from 22.75 to 27.5 GHz. Besides, this high-speed sigma-delta modulator introduces less than 1 mu s latency in the transmit chain. Its all-digital nature enables network virtualization, making the transmitter compatible with different existing standards. The prominent performance corroborates the strong competitiveness of this SDM-based RoF approach in high-frequency RoF 5C communication.
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ELECTROABSORPTION MODULATOR, FRONTHAUL, NRZ, ARCHITECTURE, TRANSMITTER, NETWORK, ERROR, All-digital transmitter, FPGA, quantization noise, radio-over-fiber, sigma-delta

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Li, Haolin, et al. “Real-Time 100-GS/s Sigma-Delta Modulator for All-Digital Radio-over-Fiber Transmission.” JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY, vol. 38, no. 2, 2020, pp. 386–93, doi:10.1109/JLT.2019.2931549.
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Li, H., Bauwelinck, J., Demeester, P., Torfs, G., Verplaetse, M., Verbist, J., … Yin, X. (2020). Real-time 100-GS/s sigma-delta modulator for all-digital radio-over-fiber transmission. JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY, 38(2), 386–393. https://doi.org/10.1109/JLT.2019.2931549
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Li, Haolin, Johan Bauwelinck, Piet Demeester, Guy Torfs, Michiel Verplaetse, Jochem Verbist, Joris Van Kerrebrouck, et al. 2020. “Real-Time 100-GS/s Sigma-Delta Modulator for All-Digital Radio-over-Fiber Transmission.” JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY 38 (2): 386–93. https://doi.org/10.1109/JLT.2019.2931549.
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Li, Haolin, Johan Bauwelinck, Piet Demeester, Guy Torfs, Michiel Verplaetse, Jochem Verbist, Joris Van Kerrebrouck, Laurens Breyne, Chia-Yi Wu, Laurens Bogaert, Bart Moeneclaey, and Xin Yin. 2020. “Real-Time 100-GS/s Sigma-Delta Modulator for All-Digital Radio-over-Fiber Transmission.” JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY 38 (2): 386–393. doi:10.1109/JLT.2019.2931549.
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Li H, Bauwelinck J, Demeester P, Torfs G, Verplaetse M, Verbist J, et al. Real-time 100-GS/s sigma-delta modulator for all-digital radio-over-fiber transmission. JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY. 2020;38(2):386–93.
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H. Li et al., “Real-time 100-GS/s sigma-delta modulator for all-digital radio-over-fiber transmission,” JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY, vol. 38, no. 2, pp. 386–393, 2020.
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  abstract     = {{All-digital radio-over-fiber (RoF) transmission has attracted a significant amount of interest in digital-centric systems or centralized networks because it greatly simplifies the front-end hardware by using digital processing. The sigma-delta modulator (SDM)-based all-digital RoF approach pushes the digital signal processing as far as possible into the transmit chain. We present a real-time 100-GS/s fourth-order single-bit SDM for all-digital RoF transmission in the high-frequency band without the aid of analog/optical up-conversion. This is the fastest sigma-delta modulator reported and this is also the first real-time demonstration of sigma-delta-modulated RoF in the frequency band above 24 GHz. 4.68 Gb/s (2.34 Gb/s) 64-QAM is transported over 10-km standard single-mode fiber in the C-band with 6.46% (4.73%) error vector magnitude and 3.13 Gb/s 256-QAM can be even received in an optical back-to-back configuration. The carrier frequency can be digitally tuned at run-time, covering a wide frequency range from 22.75 to 27.5 GHz. Besides, this high-speed sigma-delta modulator introduces less than 1 mu s latency in the transmit chain. Its all-digital nature enables network virtualization, making the transmitter compatible with different existing standards. The prominent performance corroborates the strong competitiveness of this SDM-based RoF approach in high-frequency RoF 5C communication.}},
  author       = {{Li, Haolin and Bauwelinck, Johan and Demeester, Piet and Torfs, Guy and Verplaetse, Michiel and Verbist, Jochem and Van Kerrebrouck, Joris and Breyne, Laurens and Wu, Chia-Yi and Bogaert, Laurens and Moeneclaey, Bart and Yin, Xin}},
  issn         = {{0733-8724}},
  journal      = {{JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY}},
  keywords     = {{ELECTROABSORPTION MODULATOR,FRONTHAUL,NRZ,ARCHITECTURE,TRANSMITTER,NETWORK,ERROR,All-digital transmitter,FPGA,quantization noise,radio-over-fiber,sigma-delta}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  location     = {{San Diego, CA}},
  number       = {{2}},
  pages        = {{386--393}},
  title        = {{Real-time 100-GS/s sigma-delta modulator for all-digital radio-over-fiber transmission}},
  url          = {{http://doi.org/10.1109/JLT.2019.2931549}},
  volume       = {{38}},
  year         = {{2020}},
}

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