Beyond 100-Gb/s Indoor Wide Field-of-View Optical Wireless Communications

Author

Gomez, Ariel ; Kai Shi ; Quintana, Crisanto ; Sato, Mitsuhisa ; Faulkner, Grahame ; Thomsen, Benn C. ; O´Brien, Dominic

Author_Institution

Dept. of Eng. Sci., Univ. of Oxford, Oxford, UK

Volume

27

Issue

4

fYear

2015

fDate

Feb.15, 15 2015

Firstpage

367

Lastpage

370

Abstract

Optical fiber communication networks can provide terabit aggregate capacities to buildings and offices within modern cities. Practical wireless systems are orders of magnitude below this capacity. In this letter, we describe an indoor optical bidirectional wireless link with an aggregate capacity over 100 Gb/s. The link operates over ~3 m range at 224 Gb/s (6 x 37.4 Gb/s) and 112 Gb/s (3 x 37.4 Gb/s) with a wide field of view (FOV) of 60° and 36°, respectively. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first demonstration of a wireless link of this type with a FOV that offers practical room-scale coverage.

Keywords

channel capacity; indoor communication; optical links; FOV; bit rate 112 Gbit/s; bit rate 224 Gbit/s; bit rate 37.4 Gbit/s; field of view; indoor optical bidirectional wireless link; modern cities; optical fiber communication networks; practical wireless systems; room-scale coverage; terabit aggregate capacities; Optical fiber networks; Optical fibers; Optical transmitters; Wavelength division multiplexing; Wireless communication; Beam steering; opti-cal fiber communication; optical fiber communication; optical wireless communication; spatial light modulator; wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2014.2374995

Filename

6967750