237 research outputs found
Quantum information processing with space-division multiplexing optical fibres
The optical fibre is an essential tool for our communication infrastructure
since it is the main transmission channel for optical communications. The
latest major advance in optical fibre technology is spatial division
multiplexing (SDM), where new fibre designs and components establish multiple
co-existing data channels based on light propagation over distinct transverse
optical modes. Simultaneously, there have been many recent developments in the
field of quantum information processing (QIP), with novel protocols and devices
in areas such as computing, communication and metrology. Here, we review recent
works implementing QIP protocols with SDM optical fibres, and discuss new
possibilities for manipulating quantum systems based on this technology.Comment: Originally submitted version. Please see published version for
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Space Division Multiplexing in Optical Fibres
Optical communications technology has made enormous and steady progress for
several decades, providing the key resource in our increasingly
information-driven society and economy. Much of this progress has been in
finding innovative ways to increase the data carrying capacity of a single
optical fibre. In this search, researchers have explored (and close to
maximally exploited) every available degree of freedom, and even commercial
systems now utilize multiplexing in time, wavelength, polarization, and phase
to speed more information through the fibre infrastructure. Conspicuously, one
potentially enormous source of improvement has however been left untapped in
these systems: fibres can easily support hundreds of spatial modes, but today's
commercial systems (single-mode or multi-mode) make no attempt to use these as
parallel channels for independent signals.Comment: to appear in Nature Photonic
Unleashing the spatial domain in optical fiber communications
SDM offers the potential for ultrahigh information-flux optical communications at petabit/s level capacities, and also reduced costs per-bit. I review progress to date and discuss some of the technological/commercial challenges and opportunities that lie ahead
Analysis of Few-Mode Multi-Core Fiber Splice Behavior Using an Optical Vector Network Analyzer
The behavior of splices in a 3-mode 36-core fiber is analyzed using optical vector network analysis. Time-domain response analysis confirms splices may cause significant mode-mixing, while frequency-domain analysis shows splices may affect system level mode-dependent loss both positively and negatively
Mode division multiplexing using an orbital angular momentum mode sorter and MIMO-DSP over a graded-index few-mode optical fibre
Mode division multiplexing (MDM)– using a multimode optical fiber’s N spatial modes as data channels to transmit N independent data streams – has received interest as it can potentially increase optical fiber data transmission capacity N-times with respect to single mode optical fibers. Two challenges of MDM are (1) designing mode (de)multiplexers with high mode selectivity (2) designing mode (de)multiplexers without cascaded beam splitting’s 1/N insertion loss. One spatial mode basis that has received interest is that of orbital angular momentum (OAM) modes. In this paper, using a device referred to as an OAM mode sorter, we show that OAM modes can be (de)multiplexed over a multimode optical fiber with higher than −15 dB mode selectivity and without cascaded beam splitting’s 1/N insertion loss. As a proof of concept, the OAM modes of the LP11 mode group (OAM−1,0 and OAM+1,0), each carrying 20-Gbit/s polarization division multiplexed and quadrature phase shift keyed data streams, are transmitted 5km over a graded-index, few-mode optical fibre. Channel crosstalk is mitigated using 4 × 4 multiple-input-multiple-output digital-signal-processing with <1.5 dB power penalties at a bit-error-rate of 2 × 10−3
Rate-Distortion-Based Physical Layer Secrecy with Applications to Multimode Fiber
Optical networks are vulnerable to physical layer attacks; wiretappers can
improperly receive messages intended for legitimate recipients. Our work
considers an aspect of this security problem within the domain of multimode
fiber (MMF) transmission. MMF transmission can be modeled via a broadcast
channel in which both the legitimate receiver's and wiretapper's channels are
multiple-input-multiple-output complex Gaussian channels. Source-channel coding
analyses based on the use of distortion as the metric for secrecy are
developed. Alice has a source sequence to be encoded and transmitted over this
broadcast channel so that the legitimate user Bob can reliably decode while
forcing the distortion of wiretapper, or eavesdropper, Eve's estimate as high
as possible. Tradeoffs between transmission rate and distortion under two
extreme scenarios are examined: the best case where Eve has only her channel
output and the worst case where she also knows the past realization of the
source. It is shown that under the best case, an operationally separate
source-channel coding scheme guarantees maximum distortion at the same rate as
needed for reliable transmission. Theoretical bounds are given, and
particularized for MMF. Numerical results showing the rate distortion tradeoff
are presented and compared with corresponding results for the perfect secrecy
case.Comment: 30 pages, 5 figures, accepted to IEEE Transactions on Communication
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