Adaptive Transceiver Design for High-capacity Multi-modal Free-space Optical Communications with Commercial Devices and Atmospheric Turbulence

Abstract

In this paper, to achieve higher robustness against atmospheric turbulence for high-capacity free-space optical (FSO) communications, an adaptive multi-modal FSO transceiver has been designed and experimentally demonstrated. We show that based on the dynamically estimated channel state information, modulation formats and power for different transmit modes can be adaptively allocated at the transmitter side. Meanwhile, at the receiver side, we show that the most suitable multi-input/multi-output decoder can be selected and employed to meet the requirement of forward error correction at the minimal expense of power consumption. By employing time-division multiplexed transmitter and receiver emulation and a spatial light modulator for turbulence emulation, an aggregate data rate of 590 Gbit/s/wavelength has been achieved when suffering from strong atmospheric turbulence, verifying the feasibility of the proposed adaptive transceiver over a turbulent FSO link. Moreover, to demonstrate practical applicability, all key devices such as transponder, multiplexer, and demultiplexer are commercially available in this work.

Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/JLT.2023.3242215
Divisions: College of Engineering & Physical Sciences
College of Engineering & Physical Sciences > Aston Institute of Photonics Technology (AIPT)
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Uncontrolled Keywords: Atmospheric turbulence,Channel estimation,Equalizers,MIMO communication,Optical receivers,Optical transmitters,Symbols,Transceivers,free-space optics (FSO),mode-division multiplexing (MDM),multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO),optical wireless communication,Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Publication ISSN: 0733-8724
Last Modified: 27 Mar 2024 18:50
Date Deposited: 13 Feb 2023 12:11
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PURE Output Type: Article
Published Date: 2023-06-01
Published Online Date: 2023-02-03
Accepted Date: 2023-02-01
Authors: Hu, Zhouyi (ORCID Profile 0000-0002-8891-6341)
Chen, Zhaozhong
Li, Yiming (ORCID Profile 0000-0002-9442-2591)
Benton, David M. (ORCID Profile 0000-0003-0663-1404)
Ali, Abdallah A. I.
Patel, Mohammed
Lavery, Martin P.j.
Ellis, Andrew D. (ORCID Profile 0000-0002-0417-0547)

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