Power Over Fiber Co-Transmission With 39.5 Gpbs Mixing 5G NR Analog Radio Over Fiber and NRZ Signals Over Multicore Fiber

In this work, we demonstrate the first time simultaneous transmission of Power over Fiber, 5G New Radio and digital signals in a single optical fiber link. We transmit eight 256 QAM 5G NR and two GPON-compliant digital No Return to Zero signals through 4 cores of a 250 m 7-core Multicore Fiber, while two Power over Fiber signals of a total 3463.2 mW are launched through other two cores. An electrical power delivery of 688.8 mW is achieved, while a total data rate of 39.5 Gbps is obtained for the 5G NR and the digital communications signals, setting a new record in simultaneous PoF and data links in Multicore Fibers.