Enhanced Atmospheric Turbulence Resiliency in Free Space Optical Communication with Silicon-Photonics Based Grating Coupler Array and Maximal-Ratio-Combining (MRC) Algorithm
Konferenz: ECOC 2024 - 50th European Conference on Optical Communication
22.09.2024-26.09.2024 in Frankfurt, Germany
Tagungsband: ITG-Fb. 317: ECOC 2024
Seiten: 4Sprache: EnglischTyp: PDF
Autoren:
Wei, Tzu-Chieh; Lin, Yuan-Zeng; Kuo, Pin-Cheng; Jian, Yin-He; Chow, Chi-Wai; Chan, David W. U.; Tong, Yeyu; Yeh, Chien; Tsang, Hon Ki
Inhalt:
We propose and demonstrate an atmospheric-turbulence-mitigation scheme using an integrated vertical-grating-coupled Germanium-Silicon (GeSi) photodiode (PD) array processed with maximal-ratio-combining (MRC). Experimental results show improved outage probability at data-rate 46.4-Gbit/s, achieving hard-decision-forward-error-correction (HD-FEC) bit-error-rate (BER) threshold.