Enhanced atmospheric turbulence resiliency with successive interference cancellation DSP in mode division multiplexing free-space optical links

Y Li, Z Chen, Z Hu, DM Benton, AAI Ali… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We experimentally demonstrate the enhanced atmospheric turbulence resiliency in a 137.8
Gbit/s/mode mode-division multiplexing free-space optical communication link through the …

[HTML][HTML] Aiming for high-capacity multi-modal free-space optical transmission leveraging complete modal basis sets

Z Hu, Y Li, Z Chen, DM Benton, AAI Ali, M Patel… - Optics …, 2023 - Elsevier
Free-space optical (FSO) communication has gained much interest due to its capability of
providing not only a cost-efficient solution where the optical fiber is too expensive or too …

Single-wavelength transmission at 1.1-Tbit/s net data rate over a multi-modal free-space optical link using commercial devices

Z Hu, Y Li, DM Benton, AAI Ali, M Patel, AD Ellis - Optics letters, 2022 - opg.optica.org
We employ commercial mode-selective photonic lanterns to implement mode multiplexing
and demultiplexing for high-capacity free-space optical communications. Moreover, we …

Utilizing structured modal beams in free-space optical communications for performance enhancement

A Willner, H Zhou, X Su, H Song… - IEEE Journal of …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
There is a growing interest in utilizing structured beams in free-space optical (FSO)
communications. With uniquely tailored spatial amplitude and phase profiles, structured …

Spatial Mode Division Multiplexing of Free-Space Optical Communications Using a Pair of Multiplane Light Converters and a Micromirror Array for Turbulence …

D Benton, Y Li, A Billaud, A Ellis - Photonics, 2024 - mdpi.com
Multi-plane light converters (MPLC) are a means of deconstructing a wavefront into
constituent modes that are focused at specific spatial locations, and the reverse—that …

Analysis of guided optical eigenmodes in magneto-optical fibers with applications to OAM mode selective couplers

G Chen, B Wu, X Jiang, F Wen… - Journal of Physics D …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Mode division multiplexing technology can regard each eigenmode in optical fibers as an
independent channel to carry different data information, helpful for improving the …

Mode-insensitive and mode-selective optical switch based on asymmetric Y-junctions and MMI couplers

S Sun, Q Yu, Y Che, T Lian, Y Xie, D Zhang… - Photonics …, 2024 - opg.optica.org
Driven by the large volume demands of data in transmission systems, the number of spatial
modes supported by mode-division multiplexing (MDM) systems is being increased to take …

Advances in Multi-Channel Mid-IR Free-Space Optical Communications

AE Willner, H Zhou, Y Duan, Z Jiang… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Free-space optical (FSO) communications in the mid-infrared (mid-IR) wavelength region
has gained increasing interest due, in part, to the lower atmospheric loss than at lower …

Spatial Mode Multiplexing for Fiber-Coupled IM/DD Optical Wireless Links with Misalignment

J Che, S Hunag, M Safari - arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.12667, 2024 - arxiv.org
Optical wireless communication (OWC) emerges as a pivotal solution for achieving terabit-
level aggregate throughput in next-generation wireless networks. With the mature high …

Single-wavelength terabit multi-modal free space optical transmission with commercial transponder

Z Hu, Y Li, DM Benton, AAI Ali, M Patel… - … and Exhibition on …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Single-Wavelength Terabit Multi-Modal Free Space Optical Transmission with Commercial
Transponder Page 1 Single-Wavelength Terabit Multi-Modal Free Space Optical Transmission …