Multicore Fiber Scenarios Supporting Power Over Fiber in Radio Over Fiber Systems

We propose the integration of power over fiber in the next generation 5G radio access network front-haul solutions based on spatial division multiplexing with multicore fibers. The different architectures in both shared- and dedicated- core scenarios for power over fiber delivery and data signals ar...

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Published in:IEEE access 2019, Vol.7, p.158409-158418
Main Authors: Vazquez, Carmen, Lopez-Cardona, Juan Dayron, Lallana, Pedro Contreras, Montero, David Sanchez, Al-Zubaidi, Fahad Mohammed Abdulhussein, Perez-Prieto, Sandra, Perez Garcilopez, Isabel
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
5G mobile communications
Attenuation
Crosstalk
Fiber lasers
Fiber nonlinear optics
Fibers
front-haul
High power lasers
Maximum power
Multicore fibers
Multiplexing
Optical attenuators
Optical fiber communication
Optical fibers
optical receivers
Optical transmitters
photovoltaic converters
power by light
power lasers
Radio
Signal quality
spatial division multiplexing
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Summary:We propose the integration of power over fiber in the next generation 5G radio access network front-haul solutions based on spatial division multiplexing with multicore fibers. The different architectures in both shared- and dedicated- core scenarios for power over fiber delivery and data signals are described. The maximum power to be delivered depending on the efficiencies of the different components is addressed as well as the limits of the delivered energy to avoid fiber fuse and non-linear effects. It is shown how those limits depend on high power laser linewidth, fiber attenuation, link length and fiber core effective area. The impairments related to non-linear effects, multicore fiber crosstalk and temperature are also theoretically analyzed. Experiments show there is no degradation of signal quality for feeding powers of several hundreds of milliwatts for both scenarios in 4-core multicore fibers. This study helps in designing future power by light delivery solutions in Radio over Fiber systems with multicore fibers.
ISSN:2169-3536
2169-3536
DOI:10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2950599