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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2026

Photonics-Aided 20 m Wireless Transmission of 56-GBaud OFDM Signals at 138 GHz in the D-Band for 6G Applications.

Hanyu Zhang, Zhongxiao Pei, Qinyi Zhang, Yifan Chen, Jianjun Yu

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Hanyu ZhangState Key Laboratory of ASIC and System, Key Laboratory for Information Science of Electromagnetic Waves (MoE), School of Information Science and Technology, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China.ORCID 0009-0007-3995-7976
Zhongxiao PeiState Key Laboratory of ASIC and System, Key Laboratory for Information Science of Electromagnetic Waves (MoE), School of Information Science and Technology, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China.
Qinyi ZhangState Key Laboratory of ASIC and System, Key Laboratory for Information Science of Electromagnetic Waves (MoE), School of Information Science and Technology, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China.ORCID 0009-0007-2306-1593
Yifan ChenState Key Laboratory of ASIC and System, Key Laboratory for Information Science of Electromagnetic Waves (MoE), School of Information Science and Technology, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China.
Jianjun YuState Key Laboratory of ASIC and System, Key Laboratory for Information Science of Electromagnetic Waves (MoE), School of Information Science and Technology, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China.

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Abstract

To meet the demand for high-capacity indoor wireless access in future 6G systems, we propose and experimentally demonstrate a photonics-aided D-band wireless transmission scheme operating at 138 GHz. At the transmitter, two external-cavity lasers together with an I/Q modulator are used to generate a modulated D-band carrier. At the receiver, homodyne down-conversion is employed to directly recover the received signal to baseband, thereby relaxing the requirements on ultra-wideband analog components and high-speed sampling hardware. A 20 m indoor line-of-sight wireless link is established to transmit a 56-Gbaud-rate OFDM-QPSK signal. The transmitted and received spectra, received constellations and bit-error-rate (BER) performance are functions of optical power at different symbol rates, and the channel amplitude and phase responses are systematically analyzed. The results show that broadband D-band signal generation, transmission, and recovery can be stably achieved in the proposed system. After receiver-side digital signal processing (DSP), clear QPSK constellations are obtained. BER measurements reveal an optimal optical-power operating range, and the 32-GBaud OFDM signal outperforms the 56-Gbaud-rate signal because its narrower occupied bandwidth makes it less sensitive to frequency-selective distortion. For 56-Gbaud-rate OFDM transmission, the BER approaches the 20% low-density parity-check forward-error-correction threshold at an optical power of approximately -1 dBm. Further analysis indicates that the current link performance is mainly limited by frequency-selective amplitude and phase distortions under bandwidth-constrained conditions, together with slight nonlinear effects at high power. These results verify the feasibility of a photonics-aided D-band wireless architecture with homodyne reception for medium-range, high-symbol-rate indoor transmission and provide an experimental basis for future 6G sub-THz wireless links.

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6G wireless accessD-band wireless transmissionfrequency-selective distortionhomodyne receptionindoor wireless linksOFDM-QPSKoptical heterodyne generationsub-THz communications

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