Atmospheric turbulence is a crucial factor affecting the performance of space optical communication systems. The mode diversity is considered an effective turbulence compensation method. In the mode diversity system, coherent combining algorithms are needed to combine the received signals from multiple modes to counteract the effects of turbulence. In this paper, we investigate the performance of 3 mode diversity coherent combining based on the selection combining (SC) algorithm in a 2.5 GBaud QPSK real-time back-to-back transmission system. We simulate turbulence with dynamic changes and calculate the bit error rate (BER) periodically. The experimental results show that within 1 second, the SC algorithm can reduce the frame error rate (FER) by 45% compared to using only single mode reception.
KEYWORDS: Adaptive optics, Single mode fibers, Turbulence, Free space optics, Atmospheric turbulence, Telecommunications, Receivers, Optical engineering, Control systems
The performance of mode diversity combined with adaptive optics (AO) based on a multipath stochastic parallel gradient descent (SPGD) algorithm over free-space optical (FSO) links through atmospheric turbulence is presented. The experimental results indicate that, compared with a single-mode fiber (SMF) combined with a single-path SPGD algorithm, three modes diversity combined with a multipath SPGD algorithm effectively reduces the power fluctuation. When the sensitivity of the receiver is assumed, the outage probability for the FSO system based on mode diversity is superior to that of the FSO system based on a SMF. The reduction of outage probability arising from mode diversity is more significant when AO is implemented. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time that the performance of modes diversity combined with a multipath SPGD algorithm over a turbulence channel has been studied.
A multi-layer polarization rotator is proposed and demonstrated based on inverse design. Simulation results show that the device successfully rotates the polarization state of the input light from TE to TM with a coupling length of only 2.8 um, and the insertion loss and extinction ratio are 3.29 dB and 25 dB respectively at the wavelength of 1550 nm. Besides, the device has a fairly-wide operating bandwidth of 64 nm from 1506 nm to 1570 nm.
We demonstrate a broadband grating couplers which can be fabricated on SOI by MPW process. By using chirped grating coupler, broad-bandwidth of 78 nm with 1 dB insertion and 130 nm with 3 dB insertion are achieved.
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