• DocumentCode
    2750543
  • Title

    25.6-bit/s/Hz spectral efficiency using 16-QAM signals over pol-muxed multiple orbital-angular-momentum modes

  • Author

    Wang, Jian ; Yang, Jeng-Yuan ; Fazal, Irfan M. ; Ahmed, Nisar ; Yan, Yan ; Shamee, Bishara ; Willner, Alan E. ; Birnbaum, Kevin ; Choi, John ; Erkmen, Baris ; Dolinar, Sam ; Tur, Moshe

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    9-13 Oct. 2011
  • Firstpage
    587
  • Lastpage
    588
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate generation/multiplexing/demultiplexing of polarization-multiplexed (pol-muxed) multiple orbital-angular-momentum (OAM) modes. High spectral efficiency of 25.6-bit/s/Hz is implemented using 10.7-Gbaud 16-QAM signals over pol-muxed four OAM modes. An OSNR penalty less than 3.5 dB is observed.
  • Keywords
    angular momentum; multiplexing; optical modulation; quadrature amplitude modulation; 16-QAM signals; OSNR penalty; demultiplexing; pol-muxed multiple orbital-angular-momentum modes; polarization-multiplexing; spectral efficiency; Laser beams; Multiplexing; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber polarization; Optical polarization; Signal to noise ratio;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Photonics Conference (PHO), 2011 IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Arlington, VA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-8940-4
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/PHO.2011.6110684
  • Filename
    6110684