Demonstration of Turbulence-Tolerant Free-Space Optical Communication Receiver Using Few-Mode-Fiber Coupling and Digital Combining
IEEE Summer Topical Meeting (2016)
Section :
Aerospace and Defense
Publication date:
2016
Authors: M. Arikawa1, T. Ishikawa1, K. Hosokawa1, S. Takahashi1, Y. Ono1, T. Ito1
1 NEC Corporation
IEEE Summer Topicals meeting, p158 (2016).
Abstract
We improved the coupling efficiency to the free-space optical receiver by using a few-mode fiber with the optical signal distorted with a turbulence emulator. We demonstrated digital maximum ratio combining over 10-Gb/s BPSK transmission mitigated fading, relaxing the required transmitted power by 5 dB.