IEEE802.11ad Packet Transmission on IF-over-Fiber in the W-Band with SSB Optical Modulation

We developed an intermediate frequency-over-fiber technology to transmit an IEEE802.11ad packet in the W-band with a simple structure, and demonstrated it using an optical single-sideband modulation. The setup consists of an up-converter, based on a second-order harmonic mixer with a power amplifier, and an optical IQ modulator with an automatic bias control. It can transmit an IEEE802.11ad packet in 16-QAM under an error vector magnitude of 5.9% at the frequency of 88.9 GHz. The proposed IFoF scheme is suitable for a high-speed telecommunications such as the 5th generation mobile system and beyond or a high-resolution radar system in the millimeter-wave.