Real-Time MIMO receiver for mode-division multiplexing over coupled-mode optical fibers

Abstract

Today’s demand for increasing information transmission capacity has led us to develop new technologies to beat the theoretical capacity limit. Among these, advances in digital fiber-optic communication have been a especially promising approach to achieve such target because of the high speed of light and its multiple physical dimensions to take advantage of. This project aims to apply and expand our knowledge acquired in the first introductory course in signal theory to understand how real world digital communication systems work. In particular, we will focus on the multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) digital signal processing (DSP) part of the digital fiber-optic communication