120 Gb/s Multi-Channel THz Wireless Transmission and THz Receiver Performance Analysis

A photonic multi-channel terahertz (THz) wireless transmission system in the 350–475 GHz band is experimentally demonstrated. The employment of six THz carriers modulated with 10 Gbaud Nyquist quadrature phase-shift keying baseband signal per carrier results in an overall capacity of up to 120 Gb/s. The THz carriers with high-frequency stability and low phase noise are generated based on photonic photomixing of 25-GHz spaced six optical tones and a single optical local oscillator derived from a same optical frequency comb in an ultra-broadband uni-travelling carrier photodiode. The bit-error-rate performance below the hard decision forward error correction threshold of $3.8\times 10^{\mathrm {\mathbf {-3}}}$ for all the channels is successfully achieved after wireless delivery. Furthermore, we also investigate the influence of the harmonic spurs in a THz receiver on the performance of transmission system, and the experimental results suggest more than 30 dB spur suppression ratio in downconverted intermediate frequency signals for obtaining less than 1 dB interference.

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