We demonstrate wavelength-division multiplexed (WDM) and mode-division multiplexed (MDM) transmission over a
fiber recirculating loop comprising of a 25-km span of low differential mode group dispersion (DMGD) few-mode fiber
carrying the LP01 and LP11 mode groups, and an inline few-mode erbium-doped fiber amplifier (FM-EDFA) providing
low mode-dependent gain (MDG) per span. We successfully transmitted a 10λ × 6 × 28-Gbaud QPSK signal over a
distance of 700 km.
Advantages of optical links like small, lightweight and power efficient terminals are practical for high data rate
services of disaster preparedness and environmental research. In this paper, we demonstrate experimental results of 40-Gbit/s optical free space transmission using single-polarization quadrature phase shift keying (SP-QPSK) modulation
format and digital coherent detection. The digital coherent detection enabled a high sensitivity and a tolerance to
transmission impairments, which have attractive features for free space transmission system. We developed a 50-Gbit/s
SP-QPSK transmitter and offline-receiver with the optical antenna system. SP-QPSK optical modulation signal with a
line rate of 50-Gbit/s including 20% FEC is employed for high receiver sensitivity. A cascade by EDFAs consisting of a
low noise pre-EDFA and an optical level controlled EDFA is developed to compensate for level fluctuation without
degrading receiver sensitivity. Maximal ratio combining algorithms and carrier phase estimation algorithms are used at
the offline-receiver for QPSK signal detection. We succeeded 4-meter indoor free space transmission having same
performance as that with fiber connection using the developed system. The optical received power was -42 dBm at bit
error rate of 10-3. While for outdoor 50-meter transmission, we confirmed the received bit error rate larger than FEC
limit.
KEYWORDS: Polarization, Digital signal processing, Receivers, Signal detection, Telecommunications, Free space optical communications, Oscillators, Free space optics, Modulation, Data communications
Single polarization high-speed optical transmission is important for bidirectional free-space optical communication
system in order to have enough isolation up-link and down-link by signal discrimination using orthogonal polarization
states. At recent advance in digital coherent technology, polarization re-combining in combination with polarization
diversity receiver is widely used to suppress performance degradation when polarization states of signal and local
oscillator are misaligned by system vibration or shocks. However, in order to implement the re-combining function in
digital signal processing, appropriate algorithm is required for realizing the system stability. In this paper, we
demonstrate a new algorithm implementation for single polarization receiver with maximal-ratio-combining (MRC)
technique. First we exhibited the problem for state-of-the-art polarization re-combining in instability due to singularity
condition at 45-degree-azimuth elliptic polarization. In order to overcome this problem, we proposed a newly MRC
algorithm added splitting ratio dependent phase correction coefficients and achieved stable re-combining at 45-degreeazimuth
elliptic polarization signal. And we successfully demonstrated the stable receiving for 50-Gb/s single
polarization QPSK signal with all polarization states by our digital coherent receiver platforms added the newly MRC
algorithm, compared with previous-proposed MRC algorithm.
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