A first demonstrator for a mode group diversity multiplexing communication system

Author

de Boer, M. ; Tsekrekos, C.P. ; Martinez, A. ; Kurniawan, H. ; Bergmans, J.W.M. ; Koonen, A.M.J. ; van den Boom, H.P.A. ; Willems, F.M.J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Eindhoven Univ. of Technol.

fYear

2005

fDate

15-15 Dec. 2005

Abstract

This paper describes a first demonstration setup for the transparent transmission of two analog signals using mode group diversity multiplexing (MGDM). MGDM is an optical multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) technique suitable for short-reach multimode fibre networks. In this demonstrator two baseband analog signals are transmitted together with out-of-band pilot tones. Measurements of the pilot tones are used at the receiver to estimate the transmission matrix; the inverse of this matrix is then used to demultiplex the received signals. A number of experimental results are given for the performance of the experimental setup

Keywords

MIMO communication; matrix algebra; multiplexing; optical fibre networks; baseband analog signals; mode group diversity multiplexing communication system; optical multiple-input multiple-output technique; receiver; short-reach multimode fibre networks; transmission matrix; transparent transmission;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

iet

Conference_Titel

Optical Fibre Communications and Electronic Signal Processing, 2005. The IEE Seminar on (Ref. No. 2005-11310)

Conference_Location

London

ISSN

0537-9989

Print_ISBN

0-86341-598-9

Type

conf

Filename

1588600