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Transmission of Multiple Signals through an Optical Fiber Using Wavefront Shaping

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The underaddressed optical multiple-input, multiple-output channel: capacity and outage.

Ronen Dar¹, Meir Feder, Mark Shtaif

¹School of Electrical Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel. ronendar@post.tau.ac.il

|August 4, 2012

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Area of Science:

Optical communications
Signal processing

Background:

Space-division multiplexing (SDM) enables higher data rates by using multiple spatial modes in optical fibers.
Future fiber deployments may exceed current signal processing capabilities, necessitating analysis of systems with fewer addressed modes.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the performance of optical SDM systems when the number of transmitter and receiver modes is less than the fiber's total supported modes.
To analyze the impact of addressed mode count on system capacity and reliability.

Main Methods:

Calculation of ergodic capacity for the optical link.
Determination of the outage probability.
Analysis of performance metrics' dependence on the number of addressed modes.

Main Results:

Ergodic capacity and outage probability were calculated for systems with varying numbers of addressed modes.
The study quantifies the trade-offs between system complexity and performance.

Conclusions:

Understanding the performance limitations is essential for designing future-proof optical networks.
The number of addressed modes significantly influences the achievable data rates and reliability in SDM systems.