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Mode-Division Multiplexed Transmission in Few-mode Fibers
| Title: | Mode-Division Multiplexed Transmission in Few-mode Fibers. |
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| Name(s): |
Bai, Neng, Author Li, Guifang, Committee Chair Christodoulides, Demetrios, Committee Member Schulzgen, Axel, Committee Member Abouraddy, Ayman, Committee Member Phillips, Ronald, Committee Member Ip, Ezra, Committee Member University of Central Florida, Degree Grantor |
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| Type of Resource: | text | |
| Date Issued: | 2013 | |
| Publisher: | University of Central Florida | |
| Language(s): | English | |
| Abstract/Description: | As a promising candidate to break the single-mode fiber capacity limit, mode-division multiplexing (MDM) explores the spatial dimension to increase transmission capacity in fiber-optic communication. Two linear impairments, namely loss and multimode interference, present fundamental challenges to implementing MDM. In this dissertation, techniques to resolve these two issues are presented.To de-multiplex signals subject to multimode interference in MDM, Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MIMO) processing using adaptive frequency-domain equalization (FDE) is proposed and investigated. Both simulations and experiments validate that FDE can reduce the algorithmic complexity significantly in comparison with the conventional time-domain equalization (TDE) while achieving similar performance as TDE. To further improve the performance of FDE, two modifications on traditional FDE algorithm are demonstrated. i) normalized adaptive FDE is applied to increase the convergence speed by 5 times; ii) master-slave carrier recovery is proposed to reduce the algorithmic complexity of phase estimation by number of modes.Although FDE can reduce the computational complexity of the MIMO processing, due to large mode group delay (MGD) of FMF link and block processing, the algorithm still requires enormous memory and high hardware complexity. In order to reduce the required tap length (RTL) of the equalizer, differential mode group delay compensated fiber (DMGDC) has been proposed. In this dissertation, the analytical expression for RTL is derived for DMGDC systems under the weak mode coupling assumption. Instead of depending on the overall MGD of the link in DMGD uncompensated (DMGDUC) systems, the RTL of DMGDC systems depend on the MGD of a single DMGDC fiber section. The theoretical and numerical results suggest that by using small compensation step-size, the RTL of DMGDC link can be reduced by 2 orders of magnitude compared to DMGDUC link. To compensate the loss of different modes, multimode EDFAs are presented with re-configurable multimode pumps. By tuning the mode content of the multimode pump, mode-dependent gain (MDG) can be controlled and equalized. A proto-type FM-EDFA which could support 2 LP modes was constructed. The experimental results show that by using high order mode pumps, the modal gain difference can be reduced. By applying both multimode EDFA and equalization techniques, 26.4Tb/s MDM-WDM transmission was successfully demonstrated.A brief summary and several possible future research directions conclude this dissertation. | |
| Identifier: | CFE0004811 (IID), ucf:49751 (fedora) | |
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2013-08-01 Ph.D. Optics and Photonics, Optics and Photonics Doctoral This record was generated from author submitted information. |
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| Subject(s): | Optical Fiber Communication -- Multiplexing -- Fiber Amplifier -- Digital Signal Processing | |
| Persistent Link to This Record: | http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0004811 | |
| Restrictions on Access: | public 2013-08-15 | |
| Host Institution: | UCF |
