4.6-km D-Band Photonic-Assisted Terahertz Wireless Communication Employing SIMO and MRC Technology
Qiutong Zhang, Jianjun Yu, Xianming Zhao, Weiping Li, Yi Wei, Xiongwei Yang, Jingwen Tan, Bing Zhang, Kaihui Wang, Ying Zhang, Yanyi Wang, Wen Zhou, Bo Liu, Feng Zhao, Jianguo Yu
Abstract
Photon-assisted generation of terahertz (THz) signals can support larger modulation bandwidths in future ultrahigh-speed wireless communication systems. Single-input–multiple-output (SIMO) or multiple-input–multiple-output (MIMO) technology effectively uses the spatial dimension to improve the quality of the received signal, such as signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and bit error rate (BER) ratio. Therefore, we experimentally demonstrate <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$D$</tex-math> </inline-formula> -band photon-assisted THz 1 <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\times$</tex-math> </inline-formula> 2 SIMO 4.6-km wireless communication. We use a photon-assisted THz technology to generate a 124.37-GHz <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$D$</tex-math> </inline-formula> -band signal, which is received according to the maximum ratio combining (MRC) technology after 1 <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\times$</tex-math> </inline-formula> 2 SIMO wireless transmission and uses fully blind digital signal processing (DSP) for carrier recovery algorithm without any training sequence. According to the experimental results, the maximum SNR diversity gain between 1 <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\times$</tex-math> </inline-formula> 1 and 1 <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\times$</tex-math> </inline-formula> 2 SIMO can be up to 2.8 dB. After the MRC algorithm, the BER can be reduced by one order of magnitude, which is less than 15% of soft decision forward error correction (SD-FEC). This is the first experimental demonstration of high gain and long range in a <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$D$</tex-math> </inline-formula> -band THz 1 <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\times$</tex-math> </inline-formula> 2 SIMO system with a line rate of 43.5 Gb/s. These results will provide important assistance to our future efforts in photon-assisted THz wireless communications.