Name
Title | ||
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1.28 Terabit/s (32x40 Gbit/s) WDM transmission system for free space optical communications |
Abstract | ||
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We review a novel Free Space Optical (FSO) system that represents a significant breakthrough in the area of FSO communications. The system encompasses a pair of novel terminals: these allow direct and transparent optical connection to common single mode fibers and include a dedicated electronic control unit that effectively tracks the signal beam wandering due to atmospheric turbulence and mechanical vibrations. Further improvement in the signal power stabilization is achieved by means of saturated EDFAs. These solutions allow to realize a new FSO system, which is tested in a double-pass FSO link between two buildings in Pisa, Italy. When the terminals are fed by common WDM signals they allow enough power budget and margins to support a record high capacity transmission (32×40 Gbit/s), with a enormous improvement of stability (six hours with no error burst). During day-long transmission, the system behavior has been deeply characterized to correlate any increase of bit error ratio (BER) to the FSO control parameters. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
|---|---|---|
2009 | 10.1109/JSAC.2009.091213 | IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
bit error ratio,fso communication,day-long transmission,fso control parameter,double-pass fso link,common wdm,common single mode fiber,wdm transmission system,dedicated electronic control unit,free space,optical communication,system behavior,new fso system,power budget,optical communications,bit error rate,control systems,optical scattering,wavelength division multiplexing,electronic control unit,free space optics,vibration control,system testing,free space optical communication,single mode fiber,stability,adaptive optics | Wavelength-division multiplexing,Power budget,Burst error,Telecommunications,Computer science,Optical communication,Real-time computing,Free-space optical communication,Optical polarization,Terabit,Electrical engineering,Bit error rate | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
27 | 9 | 0733-8716 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
28 | 2.87 | 0 |
Authors | ||
7 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| E. Ciaramella | 1 | 33 | 4.43 |
| Y. Arimoto | 2 | 28 | 2.87 |
| G. Contestabile | 3 | 28 | 5.24 |
| M. Presi | 4 | 28 | 3.21 |
| A. D'Errico | 5 | 28 | 2.87 |
| V. Guarino | 6 | 28 | 2.87 |
| M. Matsumoto | 7 | 28 | 2.87 |