Title :
Experimental demonstration of obstruction-tolerant free-space transmission of two 50-Gbaud QPSK data channels using Bessel beams carrying orbital angular momentum
Author :
Ahmed, Nova ; Lavery, Martin P. J. ; Hao Huang ; Guodong Xie ; Yongxiong Ren ; Yan Yan ; Willner, Alan E.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of EE, Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Abstract :
We experimentally demonstrate free-space optical transmission using two multiplexed OAM-carrying Bessel beams under obstructed path conditions. An OSNR penalty <; 2.5 dB is observed when the obstruction is placed in the beam center.
Keywords :
Bessel functions; angular momentum; optical communication; optical modulation; quadrature phase shift keying; wireless channels; 50-Gbaud QPSK data channels; Bessel beams; obstruction-tolerant free-space transmission; orbital angular momentum; Crosstalk; Educational institutions; Multiplexing; Optical crosstalk; Optical noise; Optical transmitters; Signal to noise ratio;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2014 European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Cannes
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2014.6964157
