Fiber Wireless A-RoF/IFoF Uplink of 0.4Gb/s 16-QAM and 0.6Gb/s QPSK Over a 32-Element 60GHz Phased Array Antenna for 5G Fronthaul Networks

We experimentally demonstrate an end-to-end Fiber Wireless A-RoF/IFoF fronthaul link using a 32-element 60GHz phased array antenna and characterize for the first time its linearity using two tone measurements, resulting in an 100Mbd uplink transmission of a 16-QAM signal and a 300Mdb QPSK with beamsteering of 15° degrees across 1km fiber and 1m V-band link, meeting the uplink user-rate KPI-requirements for 5G mmWave networks.