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Transmission of Multiple Signals through an Optical Fiber Using Wavefront Shaping
Published on: March 20, 2017
Optically powered fiber networks
M Röger1, G Böttger, M Dreschmann
1Institute of Photonics and Quantum Electronics, University of Karlsruhe, Engesserstr. 5, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany. m.roeger@ipq.uka.de
Abstract:
Optically powered networks are demonstrated. Heterogeneous subscribers having widely varying needs with respect to power and band-width can be effectively controlled and optically supplied by a central of-fice. The success of the scheme relies both on power-efficient innovative hardware and on a novel low-energy medium access control protocol. We demonstrate a sensor network with subscribers consuming less than 1 microW average power, and an optically powered high-speed video link transmitting data at a bitrate of 100 Mbit/s.

