Research Article
Integrated Free-Space Optics and Fiber Optic Network Performance Enhancement for Sustaining 5G High Capacity Communications
Table 1
Parameters range with units applied for analyzing 5G NR based fiber-FSO system performance.
| Name of the element | Description of the element |
| Transmitted | 64QAM-OFDM | SMF length | 25 km | FSO space | 500 m | RF range | 0.5 m cascaded media | UTC-PD size | 250 GHz | Data rate | 22 Gbps | 5G NR sub-THz signal format | 125–200 GHz/22 Gbps | Noise figure | 3 dB |
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