Scrambled coherent superposition for enhanced optical fiber communication in the nonlinear transmission regime
| Autor: | Thierry F. Taunay, Andrew R. Chraplyvy, Xiang Liu, Peter J. Winzer, Benyuan Zhu, R.W. Tkach, D. J. DiGiovanni, M. Fishteyn, Sethumadhavan Chandrasekhar |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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Optical fiber
Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing Computer science Optical communication Signal Multiplexing law.invention Superposition principle Optics Fiber nonlinearity law Fiber Optic Technology Fiber Computer Security Signal processing business.industry Transmitter Equipment Design Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics Equipment Failure Analysis Nonlinear system Transmission (telecommunications) Nonlinear Dynamics Telecommunications Computer-Aided Design business |
| Zdroj: | Optics express. 20(17) |
| ISSN: | 1094-4087 |
| Popis: | Coherent superposition of light waves has long been used in various fields of science, and recent advances in digital coherent detection and space-division multiplexing have enabled the coherent superposition of information-carrying optical signals to achieve better communication fidelity on amplified-spontaneous-noise limited communication links. However, fiber nonlinearity introduces highly correlated distortions on identical signals and diminishes the benefit of coherent superposition in nonlinear transmission regime. Here we experimentally demonstrate that through coordinated scrambling of signal constellations at the transmitter, together with appropriate unscrambling at the receiver, the full benefit of coherent superposition is retained in the nonlinear transmission regime of a space-diversity fiber link based on an innovatively engineered multi-core fiber. This scrambled coherent superposition may provide the flexibility of trading communication capacity for performance in future optical fiber networks, and may open new possibilities in high-performance and secure optical communications. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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