Mitigation of Fading Caused by Atmospheric Turbulence with FMF Coupling and Maximum Ratio Combining Used in 320-m Free-Space Optical Transmission of 10 Gb/s BPSK
ECOC (2016)
Section :
Aerospace and Defense
Publication date:
2016
Authors: M. Arikawa1, T. Ishikawa1, K. Hosokawa1, S. Takahashi1, Y. Ono1, T. Ito1
1 NEC Corporation
European Conference on Optical Communication, Th.2.P2.SC5.15 (2016).
Abstract
We experimentally demonstrated the sum of the six modes of FMF improved coupling efficiency by 6.5 dB for the optical beam impaired by 320-m open-air free-space transmission, and fading was suppressed by digital maximum ratio combining for 10 Gb/s BPSK.