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Hybrid terahertz (THz)/free-space optical (FSO) systems offer a promising paradigm for high-capacity, all-weather wireless communication, yet their deployment is often hindered by the bulky size and high complexity of discrete transceivers. This paper experimentally demonstrates a low-complexity hybrid THz/FSO transmission architecture featuring a unified photonic transmitter. By leveraging a polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) plate serving as a dichroic beam combiner—which reflects the 1550 nm optical signal while transmitting the 300 GHz THz signal—we realize simultaneous signal propagation over a shared aperture and link. Photonics-aided techniques are employed to generate both carriers, ensuring system integration and coherence. The experimental results verify that both the THz and FSO links independently support 30-GBaud quadrature phase-shift keying (QPSK) transmission over a 10-m wireless distance, achieving a net data rate of 60 Gbps per link while satisfying the 7% hard-decision forward error correction (HD-FEC) threshold of 3.8 × 10⁻³. This work validates the feasibility of shared-transmitter designs and provides a compact, cost-effective solution for future high-speed fronthaul/backhaul networks. Full article

Terahertz wireless communication offers ultra-high bandwidth, enabling an extremely high data rate for next-generation networks. However, it faces challenges including severe propagation loss and atmospheric absorption, which limits the transmission rate and transmission distance. To address the problem, polarization division multiplexing (PDM) and antenna diversity techniques are utilized in this work to increase system capacity without changing the bandwidth of transmitted signals. Meanwhile, duobinary shaping is used to solve the problem of bandwidth limitation of components in the system, and the final duobinary signals are recovered by maximum likelihood sequence detection (MLSD). A Gaussian mixture model (GMM)-enhanced duobinary unsupervised adaptive convolutional neural network (DB-UACNN) is proposed, to further deal with channel noise. Based on the technologies above, a 2 × 2 multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) photonic-aided terahertz wireless transmission system at 300 GHz is demonstrated. Experimental results have proved that the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) gain of duobinary shaping is up to 1.87 dB and 1.70 dB in X-polarization and Y-polarization. The proposed GMM-enhanced DB-UACNN also shows extra SNR gain of up to 2.59 dB and 2.63 dB in X-polarization and Y-polarization, compared to the conventional duobinary filter. The high transmission rate of 100 Gbit/s over the distance of 200 m is finally realized under a 7% hard-decision forward error correction (HD-FEC) threshold. Full article