Abstract

A two-way 224-Gbit/s four-level pulse amplitude modulation (PAM4)-based fibre-free-space optical (FSO) converged system through a 25-km single-mode fibre (SMF) transport with 500-m free-space transmission is successfully constructed, which adopts injection-locked vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers with polarisation-multiplexing mechanism for a demonstration. Compared with one-way transmission, two-way transmission is an attractive architecture for fibre-FSO converged system. Two-way transmission over SMF transport with free-space transmission not only reduces the required number of fibres and the setups of free-space transmission, but also provides the advantage of capacity doubling. Incorporating dual-wavelength four-level pulse amplitude modulation (PAM4) modulation with polarisation-multiplexing mechanism, the transmission capacity of fibre-FSO converged system is significantly enhanced to 224 Gbit/s (56 Gbit/s PAM4/wavelength × 2-wavelength × 2-polarisation) for downlink/uplink transmission. Bit error rate and PAM4 eye diagrams (downstream/upstream) perform well over 25-km SMF transport with 500-m free-space transmission. This proposed two-way fibre-FSO converged system is a prominent one not only because of its development in the integration of fibre backbone with optical wireless extension, but also because of its advantage in two-way transmission for affording high downlink/uplink data rate with good transmission performance.

Details

Title
A two-way 224-Gbit/s PAM4-based fibre-FSO converged system
Author
Hai-Han, Lu 1 ; Chung-Yi, Li 2 ; Wen-Shing, Tsai 3 ; Chang Poh-Suan 1 ; Yan-Yu, Lin 1 ; Yu-Ting, Chen 1 ; Chen-Xuan, Liu 1 ; Ko, Ting 1 

 National Taipei University of Technology, Institute of Electro-Optical Engineering, Taipei, Taiwan (GRID:grid.412087.8) (ISNI:0000 0001 0001 3889) 
 National Taipei University, Department of Communication Engineering, New Taipei City, Taiwan (GRID:grid.469086.5) (ISNI:0000 0000 9360 4962) 
 Ming Chi University of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering, New Taipei City, Taiwan (GRID:grid.440372.6) (ISNI:0000 0004 1798 0973) 
Publication year
2022
Publication date
2022
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group
e-ISSN
20452322
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2618383111
Copyright
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