LTE‐A compliant multi‐band radio and gigabit/s baseband transmission over 50 m of 1 mm core diameter GI‐POF for in‐home networks.

The transmission of multiple standard‐compliant long‐term evolution advance (LTE‐A) bands together with a 4‐pulse amplitude modulation (PAM) baseband signal over 50‐m‐long 1 mm core diameter polymethyl methacrylate graded‐index plastic optical fibre is demonstrated. Transmission of eight LTE‐A 64‐QAM bands and a 1.2 Gbit/s 4‐PAM baseband signal over the fibre was achieved resulting in an error vector magnitude <8% and pre‐forward error correction (FEC) BER < 10−3, respectively. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]