Design Considerations for a Transparent Mode Group Diversity Multiplexing Link

Author

Tsekrekos, P. ; Martinez, A. ; Huijskens, F.M. ; Koonen, A.M.J.

Author_Institution

COBRA Res. Inst., Eindhoven Univ. of Technol.

Volume

18

Issue

22

fYear

2006

Firstpage

2359

Lastpage

2361

Abstract

Mode group diversity multiplexing (MGDM) is an optical multiple-input-multiple-output technique that aims at creating independent communication channels over a multimode fiber, using subsets of propagating modes. This letter deals with the analysis of an MGDM point-to-point link, transparent to the transmission format. The geometry of a mode-group selective multi/demultiplexer is optimized in order to minimize the crosstalk among the channels. The power penalty is calculated when a zero-forcing algorithm is used to mitigate the crosstalk

Keywords

demultiplexing; multiplexing; optical crosstalk; optical fibre communication; telecommunication channels; crosstalk; group diversity multiplexing link; independent communication channels; mode group diversity multiplexing; mode-group selective demultiplexer; mode-group selective multiplexer; multimode fiber; optical multiple-input-multiple-output technique; point-to-point link; power penalty; propagating modes; transmission format; transparent mode multiplexing link; zero-forcing algorithm; Bandwidth; Communication channels; Detectors; MIMO; Optical crosstalk; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber networks; Optical propagation; Optical transmitters; Signal processing; Graded-index multimode fiber (GI-MMF); mode group diversity multiplexing (MGDM); optical multiple-input –multiple-output (MIMO); transparent optical link;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2006.885282

Filename

1717541