Analysis of laser and detector placement in MIMO multimode optical fiber systems

Author

Appaiah, Kumar ; Zisman, Sagi ; Vishwanath, Sriram ; Bank, Seth R.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA

fYear

2012

fDate

10-15 June 2012

Firstpage

2972

Lastpage

2976

Abstract

Multimode fibers (MMFs) offer a cost-effective connection solution for small and medium length networks. However, data rates through multimode fibers are traditionally limited by modal dispersion. Signal processing and Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) have been shown to be effective at combating these limitations, but device design for the specific purpose of MIMO in MMFs is still an open issue. This paper utilizes a statistical field propagation model for MMFs to aid the analysis and designs of MMF laser and detector arrays, and aims to improve data rates of the fiber. Simulations reveal that optimal device designs could possess 2-3 times the data carrying capacity of suboptimal ones.

Keywords

MIMO communication; electromagnetic wave propagation; fibre lasers; fibre optic sensors; optical fibre networks; signal processing; MIMO multimode optical fiber systems; MMF; MMF detector arrays; MMF laser arrays; cost-effective connection solution; data carrying capacity; detector placement; laser placement; medium length networks; modal dispersion; multiple-input multiple-output multimode optical fiber system; optimal device design; signal processing; small length networks; statistical field propagation model; Detectors; Laser modes; MIMO; Optical fiber communication; Optical fibers; Vectors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications (ICC), 2012 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Ottawa, ON

ISSN

1550-3607

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-2052-9

Electronic_ISBN

1550-3607

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICC.2012.6363770

Filename

6363770