Electroabsorption‐modulated laser as optical transmitter and receiver: status and opportunities

B Schrenk - IET Optoelectronics, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The rapid growth of digital services has led to a widespread deployment of opto‐electronics
that furnish the Internet as an efficient communication backbone. The electroabsorption …

Digital mobile fronthaul based on delta-sigma modulation employing a simple self-coherent receiver

S Luo, Z Li, C Fan, X Zhu, Y Song - Optics express, 2022 - opg.optica.org
The coherent digital radio-over-fiber (DRoF) system is a promising candidate for future
mobile fronthaul networks (MFNs) due to its high receiver sensitivity and excellent …

Simple laser transmitter pair as polarization-independent coherent homodyne detector

B Schrenk, F Karinou - Optics Express, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Coherent optical reception promises performance gains for a wide range of telecom
applications and photonic sensing. However, the practical implementation and the particular …

Single-carrier, single-λ full-duplex analog radio feed over a single-port RRH transceiver

B Schrenk, F Karinou - Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The densification of radio access and the massive deployment of radio heads calls for
efficient optical fronthaul technologies. The adoption of analogue radio-over-fiber schemes …

Coherent EML+ TIA Detector for DSP-Free 1 Gb/s/λ Reception Over Extended Budget

N Vokić, D Milovančev, F Karinou… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
The continuing drive towards broadband access necessitates cost-effective optical access
and mobile fronthaul solutions. While the fixed-mobile convergence motivates high-speeds …

Analog coherent-optical mobile fronthaul with integrated photonic beamforming

D Milovančev, N Vokić, D Löschenbrand… - IEEE Journal on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a mobile fronthaul methodology for the analogue optical transmission of native
radio signals with integrated photonic true-time delay for the beam steering of phased-array …

Detector-On-Demand Architecture for Flexible Homodyne Transmission in Optical Networks

B Schrenk, F Karinou - Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The dynamicity and heterogeneity in traffic demands necessitates an adaptation of optical
transceivers to the actual network needs. While software-defined mechanisms can …

The EML-Based Coherent Receiver With High Sensitivity for Data Center Interconnection

S Luo, Z Li, Y Feng, Y Song, L Yi - Journal of Lightwave …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The necessity for high carrier-to-signal power ratio (CSPR) in the single-sideband direct-
detection transmission system results in a low receiver sensitivity. To address this problem …

Simplified coherent receiver for analogue radio transmission over high optical budgets

D Milovančev, N Vokić, F Karinou… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
The bandwidth and latency demands driven by 5G wireless networks are putting a focus on
analog radio-over-fiber techniques as a promising candidate for broadband optical …

Face-to-face eml transceiver tandem for full-duplex analogue radio-over-air

B Schrenk, D Milovančev, N Vokić, H Hübel… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2020 - opg.optica.org
An analogue coherent-optical free-space link for local cloud-based radio access networks is
proposed and experimentally demonstrated. The adoption of a single externally modulated …