1. Proceedings
  2. I3M
  3. 2019
  4. EMSS
  5. 10.46354/i3m.2019.emss.052

Comparative computer-aided design of millimeter-wave-to-optical converters for fifth-generation communication network

  • a M. E. Belkin  ,
  • b T. Bakhvalova,
  • c A.S. Sigov
  • a,b,c Scientific and Technological Center “Integrated Microwave Photonics” MIREA - Russian Technological University, Moscow, Russian Federation
Cite as
Belkin M., Bakhvalova T., Sigov A.S. (2019). Comparative computer-aided design of millimeter-wave-to-optical converters for fifth-generation communication network. Proceedings of the 31st European Modeling & Simulation Symposium (EMSS 2019), pp. 371-374. DOI: https://doi.org/10.46354/i3m.2019.emss.052.

Abstract

Using well-known off-the-shelf optoelectronic software, we compare in detail three most prospective types of external optical modulators as millimeter-wave-tooptical converters in fiber-optics link of fiber-wireless fronthaul network for fifth-generation communication network based on Radio-over-Fiber technology. In all cases, the same 1.25 Gbit/s 16-position quadrature amplitude modulated signal at the radio-frequency carrier in intermediate-band (15 GHz) or millimeterwave band (40 GHz) propagates over fiber-optics link under study. In the result, it is shown that the use of a signal transmission scheme at the radio frequency of intermediate band (between “Low Range” and “High Range” of 5G network) allows a significant increase in the length for the fiber-optics section of a fiber-wireless fronthaul network. However, this leads to a complication of the base station scheme, since additional up/down conversion of the radio-frequency carrier is required.

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