Optical Broadcasting Employing Incoherent And Low-Coherence Spatial Modes for Bi-Directional Optical Wireless Communications
Journal article, 2021

We introduce recently developed space division multiplexing (SDM)-associated technologies into optical wireless communications (OWC) and propose to use incoherent and low-coherence spatial modes to realize optical broadcasting with reliable performance by mitigating coherent interference. We experimentally demonstrate reconfigurable optical beam steering using a programmable multi-plane light conversion (MPLC)-based mode multiplexer (MMUX) and realize point-to-multi-point optical wireless communications with low-loss up-link optical beam combining and reach extension using multimode fiber (MMF). Both incoherent and low-coherence spatial modes can be generated employing the cost-efficient components such as multimode vertical cavity surface emitting laser (MM-VCSEL) and broadband amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) noise source.

Optical imaging

Optical wireless communication

Broadcasting

Wireless communication

Coherence

Interference

Optical beams

space division multiplexing

Couplings

optical beam combining

Author

Yetian Huang

Shanghai University

Haoshuo Chen

Nokia

Nicolas K. Fontaine

Nokia

Yuanhang Zhang

University of Central Florida

Hanzi Huang

Shanghai University

Mikael Mazur

Nokia

Juan Carlos Alvarado-Zacarias

University of Central Florida

Roland Ryf

Nokia

David T. Neilson

Nokia

Guifang Li

University of Central Florida

Rodrigo Amezcua-Correa

University of Central Florida

J. Carpenter

University of Queensland

Yingxiong Song

Shanghai University

Min Wang

Shanghai University

Journal of Lightwave Technology

0733-8724 (ISSN) 1558-2213 (eISSN)

Vol. 39 3 833-838

Subject Categories

Telecommunications

Atom and Molecular Physics and Optics

Other Physics Topics

DOI

10.1109/JLT.2020.3044658

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