Impact of Angle Misalignment on the Performance of a combined Optical and millimeter-wave Transceiver enabled by a pair of Optical Harmonically Locked Lasers

TL;DR

This paper investigates how angle misalignment affects the performance of a combined optical and millimeter-wave transceiver system that uses precisely locked lasers to achieve high data rates and low phase noise.

Contribution

It introduces a combined FSO and D-band millimeter-wave transceiver system with locked lasers and studies its capacity and misalignment tolerance.

Findings

Demonstrated a high-capacity 100 Gb/s optical and mm-wave transceiver.

Analyzed the impact of angle misalignment on system performance.

Showed the system's robustness to certain degrees of misalignment.

Abstract

We demonstrated combined free-space optics (FSO) and D-band(110-170GHz) millimeter(mm-wave) transceiver enabled by precisely locked lasers with low phase noise. Combined capacity and tolerance to angle misalignment are studied using 100Gb/s optical and mm-wave signals.