Capacity enhancement in coherent optical MIMO (COMIMO) multimode fiber links

Author

Hsu, Rick C J ; Tarighat, Alireza ; Shah, Akhil ; Say, Ali H. ; Jalali, Bahram

Author_Institution

Electr. Eng. Dept., California Univ., Los Angeles, CA, USA

Volume

10

Issue

3

fYear

2006

fDate

3/1/2006 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

195

Lastpage

197

Abstract

In this paper, we study a coherent optical MIMO (COMIEMO) multi-mode fiber link proposed for enhancing the fiber information capacity. We examine the statistical characterization of the equivalent MIMO channel and the improvement in the fiber capacity due to MIMO transmission. It is shown that the equivalent channel behaves similarly to a complex Gaussian MIMO channel, suggesting that the available results on wireless MIMO communication systems can be applied to optical fiber links for capacity enhancement.

Keywords

Gaussian channels; MIMO systems; channel capacity; light coherence; optical fibre communication; statistical analysis; coherent optical MIMO channel; complex Gaussian channel; information capacity enhancement; multimode fiber link; multiple input multiple output system; statistical characterization; wireless communication system; MIMO; Optical fiber LAN; Optical fiber communication; Optical fibers; Optical modulation; Optical receivers; Optical scattering; Optical signal processing; Optical transmitters; Radio frequency;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1089-7798

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LCOMM.2006.1603382

Filename

1603382