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Quantum-Dash Semiconductor Optical Amplifier for Millimeter-Wave over Fibre Wireless Fronthaul Systems
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Xiaoran Xie, Youxin Mao, Chunying Song, Zhenguo Lu, Philip J. Poole, Jiaren Liu, Mia Toreja, Yang Qi, Guocheng Liu, Daniel Poitras, Penghui Ma, Pedro Barrios, John Weber, Ping Zhao, Martin Vachon, Mohamed Rahim, Xianling Chen, Ahmad Atieh, Xiupu Zhang and Jianping Yao
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This paper demonstrates a five-layer InAs/InP quantum-dash semiconductor optical amplifier (QDash-SOA), which will be integrated into microwave-photonic on-chip devices for millimeter-wave (mmWave) over fibre wireless networking systems. A thorough investigation of the QDash-SOA is conducted regarding its communication performance at different temperatures, bias
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This paper demonstrates a five-layer InAs/InP quantum-dash semiconductor optical amplifier (QDash-SOA), which will be integrated into microwave-photonic on-chip devices for millimeter-wave (mmWave) over fibre wireless networking systems. A thorough investigation of the QDash-SOA is conducted regarding its communication performance at different temperatures, bias currents, and input powers. The investigation shows a fibre-to-fibre (FtF) small-signal gain of 18.79 dB and a noise figure of 6.3 dB. In a common application with a 300 mA bias current and 25 °C temperature, the peak FtF gain is located at 1507.8 nm, which is 17.68 dB, with 3 dB gain bandwidth of 56.6 nm. Furthermore, the QDash-SOA is verified in a mmWave radio-over-fibre link with QAM (32 Gb/s 64-QAM 4-GBaud) and OFDM (250 MHz 64-QAM) signals. The average error vector magnitude of the QAM and OFDM signals after a 2 m wireless link could be as low as 8.29% and 6.78%, respectively. These findings highlight the QDash-SOA’s potential as a key amplifying component in future integrated microwave-photonic on-chip devices.
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