Dispersive Multiplexing in Multimode optical Fiber
01 January 2000
Recently developed ideas in the field of wireless communications suggest that the presence of scattering can be used to enhance, rather than degrade, the total information capacity of a transmission system. This notion is applied for the first time to data transmission over multimode optical fiber, and the result is a new kind of optical multiplexing that can dramatically increase the capacity of such fiber.
Experimental results are shown that demonstrate the feasibility of this approach. The technique is scalable to Gigabit/sec data rates and may play an important role in future high-bandwidth local area networking applications.