Experimental Demonstration of Full-Duplex Data Transmission Link using Twisted Lights Multiplexing over 1.1-km Orbital Angular Momentum (OAM) Fiber

Conference: ECOC 2016 - 42nd European Conference on Optical Communication
09/18/2016 - 09/22/2016 at Düsseldorf, Deutschland

Proceedings: ECOC 2016

Pages: 3Language: englishTyp: PDF

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Authors:
Chen, Shi; Liu, Jun; Zhao, Yifan; Zhu, Long; Wang, Andong; Li, Shuhui; Du, Jing; Wang, Jian (Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, School of Optical and Electronic Information, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, China)
Du, Cheng; Mo, Qi (Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, School of Optical and Electronic Information, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, China & Fiberhome Telecommunication Technologies Co. Ltd, Wuhan 430074, China)

Abstract:
We propose and demonstrate a full-duplex data transmission link using twisted light multiplexing over 1.1-km OAM fiber. The uplink and downlink transmit OAM+1, OAM-1 at x- polarization and y-polarization carrying 20 Gbit/s QPSK signal respectively. The measured full-duplex OSNR penalties at BER of 2x10-3 for uplink and downlink are about 2.3 dB.