Support 16384QAM mobile fronthaul based on 3 amplitude quantization Delta-Sigma Modulation.

We experimentally demonstrated 16384-ary quadrature amplitude modulation (16384QAM) mobile fronthaul based on 3-amplitude quantization high-pass Delta-sigma Modulation (DSM) in the O band intensity-modulated direct detection (IM/DD) system. By using 3-amplitude quantized high-pass DSM, we successfully quantize the analog waveform of intermediate frequency (IF) Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) signal into 3-Level Pulse Amplitude Modulation (PAM3) signal, and 1 GHz bandwidth 16384-QAM and 1024QAM are successful transmission in 20Gb/s IM/DD link. 0.63% Error Vector Magnitude (EVM) of 16384QAM and 0.7% EVM of 2048QAM are achieved after 25km SSMF and 50km SSMF transmission, respectively. The signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of the retrieved OFDM signal is 43 dB, which shows that the proposed scheme can support 16384QAM mobile fronthaul network. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]