Bell Labs demos real-time MIMO over multicore fibre
Thursday, December 10, 2015 at 8:52AM Part 1 of 2
Bell Labs, the research arm of Alcatel-Lucent, has used a real-time receiver to recover a dozen 2.5-gigabit signals sent over a coupled three-core fibre. Until now the signal processing for such spatial-division multiplexed transmissions have been done offline due to the computational complexity involved.
“The era of real-time experiments in spatial-division multiplexing is starting and this is the very first example” - Peter Winzer
“The era of real-time experiments in spatial-division multiplexing is starting and this is the very first example,” said Peter Winzer, head of the Optical Transmission Systems and Networks Research Department at Bell Labs. “Such real-time experiments are the next stepping stone towards a true product implementation.”
