Use of Same WDM Channels in Fiber Network for Bidirectional Free Space Optical Communication With Rayleigh Backscattering Interference Alleviation

Chien-Hung Yeh; Bo-Shen Guo; Chong-Sin Gu; Chi-Wai Chow; Wen-Piao Lin

doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2954951

IEEE Access (Jan 2019)

Use of Same WDM Channels in Fiber Network for Bidirectional Free Space Optical Communication With Rayleigh Backscattering Interference Alleviation

Chien-Hung Yeh,
Bo-Shen Guo,
Chong-Sin Gu,
Chi-Wai Chow,
Wen-Piao Lin

Affiliations

Chien-Hung Yeh: ORCiD; Department of Photonics, Feng Chia University, Taichung, Taiwan
Bo-Shen Guo: ORCiD; Department of Photonics, Feng Chia University, Taichung, Taiwan
Chong-Sin Gu: ORCiD; Department of Photonics, Feng Chia University, Taichung, Taiwan
Chi-Wai Chow: ORCiD; Department of Photonics, College of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
Wen-Piao Lin: ORCiD; Department of Electrical Engineering, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2954951
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 7
pp. 169571 – 169576

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In the paper, we present and demonstrate experimentally a 10 Gbit/s on-off keying (OOK) bidirectional wavelength-division-multiplexing (WDM) free space optical (FSO) communication architecture integrated in fiber network together with 5 m free space transmission length and 25 km fiber link, respectively. To achieve bidirectional FSO link, the all WDM wavelengths can be used simultaneously to serve as the downstream and upstream traffics in the proposed FSO-WDM system. Here, four pairs of line terminations (LTs) and optical wireless units (OWUs) are integrated arbitrarily in fiber access network for confidential and bidirectional FSO connection based on the requirement of practical environment. In the measurement, the relationship of FSO signal performance and detected tolerance are also discussed and analyzed. Moreover, the WDM-FSO transmission can also avoid the Rayleigh backscattering (RB) beat noise in fiber connection.

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ISSN: 2169-3536 (Online)
Publisher: IEEE
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Technology: Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering
Website: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=6287639

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