Innovative trends in the 6G era: A comprehensive survey of architecture, applications, technologies, and challenges

VK Quy, A Chehri, NM Quy, ND Han, NT Ban - IEEE Access, 2023‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
While the fifth-generation mobile network is being commercialized worldwide, researchers
have recently started looking towards the next generation, called the 6G network. Unlike 5G …

Optical communication infrastructure in new generation mobile networks

M Yücel, M Açikgöz - Fiber and Integrated Optics, 2023‏ - Taylor & Francis
In this study, predictions by leading network technology companies and current literature on
5 G technologies have been investigated to shed a light on the foreseeable future of the …

A THz-OAM wireless communication system based on transmissive metasurface

H Yang, S Zheng, H Zhang, N Li, D Shen… - … on Antennas and …, 2023‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the development of various emerging technologies, the capacity of current wireless
communication system is gradually saturated, and terahertz (THz) and orbital angular …

Bridging the terahertz gap: Photonics-assisted free-space communications from the submillimeter-wave to the mid-infrared

X Pang, O Ozolins, S Jia, L Zhang, R Schatz… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2022‏ - opg.optica.org
Since about one and half centuries ago, at the dawn of modern communications, the radio
and the optics have been two separate electromagnetic spectrum regions to carry data …

Real-time demonstration of 103.125-Gbps fiber–THz–fiber 2× 2 MIMO transparent transmission at 360–430 GHz based on photonics

J Zhang, M Zhu, M Lei, B Hua, Y Cai, Y Zou, L Tian… - Optics letters, 2022‏ - opg.optica.org
In this Letter, we experimentally demonstrate the first real-time transparent fiber–THz–fiber
2?×? 2 multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) transmission system with a record line rate of …

Radar-centric photonic terahertz integrated sensing and communication system based on LFM-PSK waveform

Z Lyu, L Zhang, H Zhang, Z Yang… - IEEE transactions on …, 2023‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The radar-centric terahertz integrated sensing and communication (THz-ISAC) is identified
as a significant application in future wireless access networks. Up to date, previously …

Photonic THz communications based on radio-over-fiber technology for 6G mobile network: design and opportunity

M Sung, S Kim, ES Kim, SR Moon… - IEEE Journal of …, 2023‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Abundant available spectral resources in terahertz (THz) bands enables opportunities to
develop next-generation mobile communications. However, devices with large operating …

Optical and terahertz wireless technologies: the race to 6G communications

M Shehata, Y Wang, J He… - IEEE Wireless …, 2023‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Terahertz and optical wireless communications (OWC) technologies have been considered
as promising enablers that have potential to contribute equally to the realization of a sixth …

Real-time demonstration of 100 GbE THz-wireless and fiber seamless integration networks

J Zhang, M Zhu, B Hua, M Lei, Y Cai… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2022‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose and experimentally demonstrate a real-time fiber-THz-fiber 2× 2 multiple-input
multiple-output (MIMO) seamless integration system at 340–510 GHz using commercial …

A broadband dual-polarized reflective metasurface for THz OAM communication

N Li, S Zheng, H Yang, T He, D Shen… - IEEE transactions on …, 2023‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Terahertz (THz) beams with abundant spectrum resources and low beam divergence can be
combined with orbital angular momentum (OAM) beams characterized by orthogonal …