Experimental demonstration of reconfigurable optical interconnect based on hybrid free-space and multi-mode fiber propagation

Authors

Ke Wang
Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas
Christina Lim
Efstratios Skafidas
Kamal Alameh, Edith Cowan UniversityFollow

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Keywords

10 Gb/ S, Experimental demonstrations, Free space propagation, Free spaces, Multi-mode fibers (MMF), Optical interconnect, Reconfigurable, Reconfigurable Interconnect, Electric power system interconnection, Optical interconnects, Multimode fibers

Publisher

Optical Society of America

Faculty

Faculty of Health, Engineering and Science

School

Electron Science Research Institute

RAS ID

16719

Comments

Wang, K., Nirmalathas, A., Lim, C., Skafidas, E., & Alameh, K. (2013). Experimental demonstration of reconfigurable optical interconnect based on hybrid free-space and multi-mode fiber propagation. Optical Fiber Communicaiton Conference/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference 2013. (paper OTh1A.6). Anaheim, California. © 2013 Optical Society of America.The original article is available here.

Abstract

A reconfigurable optical interconnect architecture based on hybrid free-space and multi-mode fiber (MMF) propagation is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. 3×10 Gb/s reconfigurable interconnect is achieved with ∼12 cm free-space propagation and a 10 m multimode fiber length.