Orbital Angular Momentum-based Space Division Multiplexing for High-capacity Underwater Optical Communications
Abstract
To increase system capacity of underwater optical communications, we employ the spatial domain to simultaneously transmit multiple orthogonal spatial beams, each carrying an independent data channel. In this paper, we show up to a 40-Gbit/s link by multiplexing and transmitting four green orbital angular momentum (OAM) beams through a single aperture. Moreover, we investigate the degrading effects of scattering/turbidity, water current, and thermal gradient-induced turbulence, and we find that thermal gradients cause the most distortions and turbidity causes the most loss. We show systems results using two different data generation techniques, one at 1064 nm for 10-Gbit/s/beam and one at 520 nm for 1-Gbit/s/beam; we use both techniques since present data-modulation technologies are faster for infrared (IR) than for green. For the 40-Gbit/s link, data is modulated in the IR, and OAM imprinting is performed in the green using a specially-designed metasurface phase mask. For the 4-Gbit/s link, a green laser diode is directly modulated. Lastly, we show that inter-channel crosstalk induced by thermal gradients can be mitigated using multi-channel equalisation processing.
- Authors:
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- Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA (United States). Dept. of Electrical Engineering
- California Inst. of Tech, Pasadena, CA (United States). T. J. Watson Lab. of Applied Physics
- NxGen Partners, Dallas, TX (United States)
- Tel Aviv Univ., Ramat Aviv (Israel). School of Electrical Engineering
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- California Inst. of Tech, Pasadena, CA (United States). T. J. Watson Lab. of Applied Physics; Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC) (United States). Light-Material Interactions in Energy Conversion (LMI)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1378373
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0001293
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Scientific Reports
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 6; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 2045-2322
- Publisher:
- Nature Publishing Group
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; Optical physics; Optics and photonics
Citation Formats
Ren, Yongxiong, Li, Long, Wang, Zhe, Kamali, Seyedeh Mahsa, Arbabi, Ehsan, Arbabi, Amir, Zhao, Zhe, Xie, Guodong, Cao, Yinwen, Ahmed, Nisar, Yan, Yan, Liu, Cong, Willner, Asher J., Ashrafi, Solyman, Tur, Moshe, Faraon, Andrei, and Willner, Alan E. Orbital Angular Momentum-based Space Division Multiplexing for High-capacity Underwater Optical Communications. United States: N. p., 2016.
Web. doi:10.1038/srep33306.
Ren, Yongxiong, Li, Long, Wang, Zhe, Kamali, Seyedeh Mahsa, Arbabi, Ehsan, Arbabi, Amir, Zhao, Zhe, Xie, Guodong, Cao, Yinwen, Ahmed, Nisar, Yan, Yan, Liu, Cong, Willner, Asher J., Ashrafi, Solyman, Tur, Moshe, Faraon, Andrei, & Willner, Alan E. Orbital Angular Momentum-based Space Division Multiplexing for High-capacity Underwater Optical Communications. United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep33306
Ren, Yongxiong, Li, Long, Wang, Zhe, Kamali, Seyedeh Mahsa, Arbabi, Ehsan, Arbabi, Amir, Zhao, Zhe, Xie, Guodong, Cao, Yinwen, Ahmed, Nisar, Yan, Yan, Liu, Cong, Willner, Asher J., Ashrafi, Solyman, Tur, Moshe, Faraon, Andrei, and Willner, Alan E. Mon .
"Orbital Angular Momentum-based Space Division Multiplexing for High-capacity Underwater Optical Communications". United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep33306. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1378373.
@article{osti_1378373,
title = {Orbital Angular Momentum-based Space Division Multiplexing for High-capacity Underwater Optical Communications},
author = {Ren, Yongxiong and Li, Long and Wang, Zhe and Kamali, Seyedeh Mahsa and Arbabi, Ehsan and Arbabi, Amir and Zhao, Zhe and Xie, Guodong and Cao, Yinwen and Ahmed, Nisar and Yan, Yan and Liu, Cong and Willner, Asher J. and Ashrafi, Solyman and Tur, Moshe and Faraon, Andrei and Willner, Alan E.},
abstractNote = {To increase system capacity of underwater optical communications, we employ the spatial domain to simultaneously transmit multiple orthogonal spatial beams, each carrying an independent data channel. In this paper, we show up to a 40-Gbit/s link by multiplexing and transmitting four green orbital angular momentum (OAM) beams through a single aperture. Moreover, we investigate the degrading effects of scattering/turbidity, water current, and thermal gradient-induced turbulence, and we find that thermal gradients cause the most distortions and turbidity causes the most loss. We show systems results using two different data generation techniques, one at 1064 nm for 10-Gbit/s/beam and one at 520 nm for 1-Gbit/s/beam; we use both techniques since present data-modulation technologies are faster for infrared (IR) than for green. For the 40-Gbit/s link, data is modulated in the IR, and OAM imprinting is performed in the green using a specially-designed metasurface phase mask. For the 4-Gbit/s link, a green laser diode is directly modulated. Lastly, we show that inter-channel crosstalk induced by thermal gradients can be mitigated using multi-channel equalisation processing.},
doi = {10.1038/srep33306},
journal = {Scientific Reports},
number = 1,
volume = 6,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Sep 12 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Mon Sep 12 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
}
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