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A 28-GHz millimeter-wave (MMW) carrier optically heterodyned from an orthogonally polarized tri-color (3λ-⊥-SCM) transmitter, which exhibits single-carrier modulation (SCM) to suppress the dispersion induced fading distortion after long-reach transmission, is demonstrated for building up the long-reach MMW-over-fiber with a distance of 75 km. The SCM-based encoding is obtained by seeding the tri-color master into slave colorless laser diode, which only supports TE-mode feedback with a polarized suppression ratio over 40 dB. After resuming back to the SCM tri-color optical carrier with orthogonal polarization (3λ-⊥-SCM), its delivered data can suppress the intensity noise induced by beating between adjacent modes such that the single-to-noise (SNR) can be improved by 2 dB. Comparing with the traditional parallel polarized multi-carrier modulation (MCM) based tri-color optical carrier (3λ-//-MCM), the orthogonally polarized tri-color optical carrier with SCM (3λ-⊥-SCM) can deliver 64 quadrature amplitude modulation orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (QAM OFDM) data with its maximal encoding a bandwidth of 8.3 GHz (50 Gbit/s), which provides the error vector magnitude (EVM) of 8.8%, the SNR of 21.2 dB and the bit error rate of 3.5 × 10–3 after passing through a 75-km-long single-mode fiber. To perform the MMW wireless access network (WAN) link after 75-km fiber wired transmission, the heterodyned 28-GHz MMW carrier is obtained from the orthogonally polarized SCM tri-color optical carrier (3λ-⊥-SCM) with its peak power improved by 29 dB (from –50 to –31 dBm) and CNR enhanced by 17 dB (from 32 to 49 dB), as compared to those of the parallel polarized MCM tri-color case (3λ-//-MCM). After wireless transmission for 10-m with horn-antenna pair in free space, the maximal encoding bandwidth of the 16-QAM OFDM delivered by the orthogonally polarized SCM tri-color optical carrier (3λ-⊥-SCM) is 4.5 GHz (with 18 Gbit/s capacity).