Delivery of 40 Gbit/s W-band signal over 4600 m wireless distance employing advanced digital signal processing

We experimentally built a photonics-aided long-distance large-capacity millimeter-wave wireless transmission system and demonstrated a delivery of 40 Gbit/s W-band 16-ary quadrature amplitude modulation(QAM)signal over 4600 m wireless distance at 88.5 GHz.Advanced offline digital signal processing algorithms are proposed and employed for signal recovery,which makes the bit-error ratio under 2.4×10^(−2).To the best of our knowledge,this is the first field-trial demonstration of>4 km W-band 16QAM signal transmission,and the result achieves a record-breaking product of wireless transmission capacity and distance,i.e.,184(Gbit/s)·km,for high-speed and long-distance W-band wireless communication.