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Quasi-light Storage for Optical Data Packets
Published on: February 6, 2014
2 Tbit/s free-space data transmission on two orthogonal orbital-angular-momentum beams each carrying 25 WDM channels
Irfan M Fazal1, Nisar Ahmed, Jian Wang
1Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, USA.
Abstract:
We demonstrate a 2 Tbit/s free-space data link using two orthogonal orbital angular momentum beams each carrying 25 different wavelength-division-multiplexing channels. We measure the performance for different modulation formats, including directly detected 40 Gbit/s nonreturn-to-zero (NRZ) differential phase-shift keying, 40 Gbit/s NRZ on-off keying, and coherently-detected 10 Gbaud NRZ quadrature phase-shift keying, and achieve low bit error rates with penalties less than 5 dB.
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