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Synchronous Clock and RF Carrier Transmission for Radio Access Network Fronthaul

Systems and Control 2025-06-09 v1 Systems and Control Signal Processing
Authors: Kari Aaron Clark , Zun Htay , Zichuan Zhou , Amany Kassem , Andrea Pertoldi , Benjamin Rudin , Florian Emaury , Izzat Darwazeh , Zhixin Liu
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Abstract

We simultaneously achieve clock synchronisation, clock-synchronised data transmission and ultra-low noise RF carrier generation by combining clock phase caching and frequency comb transmission in radio access networks (RAN). We demonstrate <100fs jitter for 25GHz RF carrier and 2.5GHz clock, and 16-hour 6.6ps RMS wander.

Keywords

clock synchronization RF carrier frequency comb phase caching radio access network

Cite

@article{arxiv.2506.05811,
  title  = {Synchronous Clock and RF Carrier Transmission for Radio Access Network Fronthaul},
  author = {Kari Aaron Clark and Zun Htay and Zichuan Zhou and Amany Kassem and Andrea Pertoldi and Benjamin Rudin and Florian Emaury and Izzat Darwazeh and Zhixin Liu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.05811},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

Conference manuscript submitted to the European Conference on Optical Communication 2025 (ECOC 2025) on 2nd May 2025

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