Temporal Stability of a Transparent Mode Group Diversity Multiplexing Link

Author

Tsekrekos, C.P. ; de Boer, M. ; Martinez, A. ; Willems, F.M.J. ; Koonen, A.M.J.

Author_Institution

COBRA Res. Inst., Eindhoven Univ. of Technol.

Volume

18

Issue

23

fYear

2006

Firstpage

2484

Lastpage

2486

Abstract

The temporal behavior of a mode group diversity multiplexing (MGDM) link is examined. MGDM has been proposed as a way of creating parallel, independent communication channels over multimode fiber (MMF) links using different groups of modes. When the effect of dispersion can be neglected, the output electrical signals of an MGDM link are related to the input ones via a real-valued transmission matrix. The transmission matrix is vulnerable to changes in the modal spectrum of the propagating mode groups as well as to the coupling of light at the input and output of the MMF. Measurements of the transmission matrix of a two-input two-output system over 12.7 h show that an MGDM link can be very stable

Keywords

matrix algebra; multiplexing; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; telecommunication channels; transparency; 12.7 h; communication channels; dispersion effect; electrical signals; group diversity multiplexing link; light coupling; modal spectrum; multimode fiber links; propagating mode groups; temporal stability; transmission matrix; transparent mode multiplexing link; two-input two-output system; Bandwidth; Dispersion; MIMO; Optical attenuators; Optical mixing; Optical noise; Optical propagation; Optical signal processing; Photodetectors; Stability; Graded-index multimode fiber (GI-MMF); mode group diversity multiplexing (MGDM); optical multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO); transparent optical link;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2006.886978

Filename

4014264