Title :
Exa-bit optical communication exploring by 3M scheme
Author :
Nakazawa, Masataka
Author_Institution :
Res. Inst. of Electr. Commun., Tohoku Univ., Sendai, Japan
Abstract :
We present recent challenges and efforts toward a hardware paradigm shift to overcome capacity limitation under current optical communication infrastructure. The latest advances in the three “multi” technologies, i. e. multi-level transmission with ultrahigh spectral efficiency, space division multiplexing in multi-core fibers, and mode division multiplexing with MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output), will be overviewed.
Keywords :
MIMO communication; optical communication equipment; optical fibre communication; space division multiplexing; 3M scheme; MIMO; capacity limitation; exa-bit optical communication infrastructure; hardware paradigm shift; mode division multiplexing; multicore fibers; multilevel transmission; multiple-input multiple-output; space division multiplexing; ultrahigh spectral efficiency; Couplings; MIMO; Optical fiber communication; Optical fibers; Optical pulses; Quadrature amplitude modulation;
Conference_Titel :
Microoptics Conference (MOC), 2013 18th
Conference_Location :
Tokyo