Optimized self-interference cancellation based on optical dual-parallel MZM for co-frequency and co-time full duplex wireless communication under nonlinear distortion and emulated multipath effect.

Co-frequency and co-time full duplex (CCFD) technique has the potential to further improve the capacity of the fifth-generation (5G) system. However, in a CCFD-based transceiver, the self-interference-cancellation (SIC) module is essential because the transmitted signal is also captured by the receiving antenna. In this paper, an optimized SIC technique is proposed based on a dual-parallel Mach-Zehnder modulator (DP-MZM). In addition to the multipath effect between the transmitting and receiving antennas, the nonlinear distortion induced by the used optical and electrical components is considered and analyzed for the first time. In this scheme, one of the children MZMs is biased at 90°. The bias points of the other child MZM and the parent MZM are swept for SIC optimization. Compared to the traditional SIC scheme using DP-MZM, the power of the received signal is increased by 6 dB and the robustness to the bias point drift is improved. In our experiment, over 35 dB cancellation ratio is achieved for 200 MHz filtered orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (F-OFDM) interference signal with carrier frequency from 2.5 GHz to 6 GHz. To mitigate the influence of multipath effect and nonlinear distortion, the recursive least squared (RLS) linear equalizer and the RLS Volterra equalizer are designed and compared. Finally, 42 dB cancellation ratio is achieved for 200 MHz F-OFDM signal with carrier frequency of 4.5 GHz in the presence of nonlinear distortion and emulated multipath effect.