LTE-A compliant multi-band radio and gigabit/s baseband transmission over 50m of 1mm core diameter GI-POF for in-home networks

The transmission of multiple standard-compliant long-term evolution advance (LTE-A) bands together with a 4-pulse amplitude modulation (PAM) baseband signal over 50-m-long 1 mm core diameter polymethyl methacrylate graded-index plastic optical fibre is demonstrated. Transmission of eight LTE-A 64-QAM bands and a 1.2 Gbit/s 4-PAM baseband signal over the fibre was achieved resulting in an error vector magnitude <8% and pre-forward error correction (FEC) BER < 10−3, respectively.