Sunday, February 6, 2011

LDPC-Coded Orbital Angular Momentum (OAM) Modulation For Free-Space Optical Communication

An Orbital Angular Momentum (OAM) based LDPC-coded modulation scheme suitable for use in FSO communication is proposed. They demonstrate that the proposed scheme can operate under strong atmospheric turbulence regime and enable 100 Gb/s optical transmission while employing 10 Gb/s components.
Both binary and nonbinary LDPC-coded OAM modulations are studied. In addition to providing better BER performance, the nonbinary LDPC-coded modulation reduces overall decoder complexity and latency. The nonbinary LDPC-coded OAM modulation provides a net coding gain of 9.3 dB at the BER of 10-8. The maximum-ratio combining scheme outperforms the corresponding equal-gain combining scheme by almost 2.

http://www.techrepublic.com/whitepapers/ldpc-coded-orbital-angular-momentum-oam-modulation-for-free-space-optical-communication/2423767?promo=100202

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