Wireless distributed antenna MIMO
US9917672B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Aug 11, 2014 |
| Grant date | Mar 13, 2018 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Aug 28, 2034 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04J14/052
- WIPO fieldTelecommunications
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
The present disclosure relates to system applications of multicore optical fibers. One embodiment relates to a base transceiver station for a wireless telecommunication system comprising a plurality of antenna units arranged in a MIMO configuration and adapted for transmission and/or reception of radio-frequency signals, an optical transmitter in the form of an electro-optic conversion unit for each of said plurality of antenna units, each electro-optic conversion unit adapted for converting an RF signal into an optical signal, a plurality of a single core optical fibers for guiding the optical signals, and at least one first space division multiplexing (SDM) unit adapted for multiplexing said single core optical fibers into respective individual cores of a multicore fiber, or into respective individual modes of a multimode fiber.
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