1. A review of wireless-photonic systems: Design methodologies and topologies, constraints, challenges, and innovations in electronics and photonics
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Mohammad Beikahmadi, Shahriar Mirabbasi, Ahmadreza Farsaei, Lukas Chrostowski, Reza Molavi, Yun Wang, Nicolas A. F. Jaeger, Amir Hossein Masnadi Shirazi, Michael Caverley, and Hasitha Jayatilleka
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Silicon photonics ,business.industry ,Computer science ,020206 networking & telecommunications ,02 engineering and technology ,Network topology ,Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics ,Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials ,Base station ,020210 optoelectronics & photonics ,0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering ,Baseband ,Cellular network ,Wireless ,Systems design ,Electronics ,Electrical and Electronic Engineering ,Physical and Theoretical Chemistry ,Photonics ,business ,Telecommunications ,5G - Abstract
Photonic networks form the backbone for data communications. In particular, in current and future wireless communication systems, photonic networks are becoming increasingly popular for data distribution between the central office and the remote antenna units at base stations. As wireless-photonic systems become in increasing demand, low-cost implementation of such systems will be desirable. This paper describes how integrated photonics and electronics, on silicon, can be used to design such systems. Various building blocks of such silicon-photonics systems are reviewed. The emphasis is on a 60 GHz wireless system which could be suitable for the emerging 5th-generation (5G) cellular networks. The implementation discussed here uses digital baseband optical transmission as opposed to the radio-over-fibre approach.
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- 2016
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