Synchronous Clock and RF Carrier Transmission for Radio Access Network Fronthaul

Kari Aaron Clark, Zun Htay, Zichuan Zhou, Amany Kassem, Andrea Pertoldi, Benjamin Rudin, Florian Emaury, Izzat Darwazeh, Zhixin Liu

2025-06-06

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.