WDM-RoFSO transmission: Demonstration based on IEEE 802.11 WLAN standard

Abstract

We show two experiment setups to verify the applicability of WDM (wavelength division multiplexing)-RoFSO (Radio-over-Free-Space Optics) system: (i) transmission of images files following the data format of IEEE 802.11 wireless local area network; (ii) robust performance analysis of bit error rate for on–off keying signal at a speed of 10 Gbps. Specifically, it is shown that, for 100 m indoor transmission, our testbed satisfies an error-free condition of BER ≤10−12, achieving a total data rate of 20 Gbps. In this paper, we contribute to the evaluation of the practical FSO measurement data by providing experimental measurements.

Keywords

• RoFSO
• IEEE 802.11 WLAN
• WDM
• FSO
• FSOC