Tri-color optical transmitter with embedding 28-GHz millimeter-wave carrier for 5G mobile over fiber

Data throughput enhanced tri-color optical transmitter with single-mode modulation for 28-GHz photonic millimeter-wave over fiber link in 50-km-long SMF is demonstrated to achieve QAM-OFDM baseband data rates of 18-Gb/s optical and 12-Gb/s 3-m wireless communications.