title: 1 λ × 1.44 Tb/s free-space IM-DD transmission employing OAM multiplexing and PDM.
abstract: We report the experimental demonstration of single wavelength terabit free-space intensity modulation direct detection (IM-DD) system employing both orbital angular momentum (OAM) multiplexing and polarization division multiplexing (PDM). In our experiment, 12 OAM modes with two orthogonal polarization states are used to generate 24 channels for transmission. Each channel carries 30 Gbaud Nyquist PAM-4 signal. Therefore an aggregate gross capacity record of 1.44 Tb/s (12 × 2 × 30 × 2 Gb/s) is acheived with a modulation efficiency of 48 bits/symbol. After 0.8m free-space transmission, the bit error rates (BERs) of all the channels are below the 20% hard-decision forward error correction (HD-FEC) threshold of 1.5 × 10(-2). After applying the decision directed recursive least square (DD-RLS) based filter and post filter, the BERs of two polarizations can be reduced from 5.3 × 10(-3) and 7.3 × 10(-3) to 2.2 × 10(-3) and 3.4 × 10(-3), respectively.
authors.forename: Yixiao
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.forename: Kaiheng
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Zou
authors.forename: Zhennan
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Zheng
authors.forename: Fan
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Zhang