Photonics millimeter wave bidirectional full-duplex communication based on polarization multiplexing

Abstract

We have proposed and experimentally implemented a photonics-aided large-capacity long-distance mm-wave bidirectional full-duplex communication system at the W-band based on polarization multiplexing. The same radio frequency (RF) carrier source is shared by both the uplink and the downlink, and a pair of orthomode transducers (OMTs) are used to separate the dual orthogonally polarized channels. To achieve the maximum spectrum efficiency and throughput, 10-Gbaud probabilistically shaped 256-level quadrature-amplitude-modulation (PS-256QAM) signals with 7.07 bit/symbol/Hz are transmitted in Ch. H and Ch. V. The system can support the bidirectional transmission with 103-Gbps data rate over 4600-m RF wireless distance. To the best of our knowledge, based on a photonics-aided bidirectional full-duplex system, this is the first time to realize a record-breaking bit rate–distance product at the W-band, i.e., 103 Gbps × 4.6 km = 473.8 Gbps•km.