TY - JOUR
T1 - Communicating Using Spatial Mode Multiplexing: Potentials, Challenges and Perspectives
AU - Trichili, Abderrahmen
AU - Park, Kihong
AU - Zghal, Mourad
AU - Ooi, Boon S.
AU - Alouini, Mohamed-Slim
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01
Acknowledgements: Figure [4] was produced by Xavier Pita, scientific illustrator at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST).
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Time, polarization, and wavelength multiplexing schemes have been used to satisfy the growing need of transmission capacity. Using space as a new dimension for communication systems has been recently suggested as a versatile technique to address future bandwidth issues. We review the potentials of harnessing the space as an additional degree of freedom for communication applications including free space optics, optical fiber installation, underwater wireless optical links, on-chip interconnects, data center indoor connections, radio frequency and acoustic communications. We focus on the orbital angular momentum (OAM) modes and equally identify the challenges related to each of the applications of spatial modes and the particular OAM modes in communication. We further discuss the perspectives of this emerging technology. Finally, we provide the open research directions and discuss the practical deployment of OAM communication links for different applications.
AB - Time, polarization, and wavelength multiplexing schemes have been used to satisfy the growing need of transmission capacity. Using space as a new dimension for communication systems has been recently suggested as a versatile technique to address future bandwidth issues. We review the potentials of harnessing the space as an additional degree of freedom for communication applications including free space optics, optical fiber installation, underwater wireless optical links, on-chip interconnects, data center indoor connections, radio frequency and acoustic communications. We focus on the orbital angular momentum (OAM) modes and equally identify the challenges related to each of the applications of spatial modes and the particular OAM modes in communication. We further discuss the perspectives of this emerging technology. Finally, we provide the open research directions and discuss the practical deployment of OAM communication links for different applications.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/628262
UR - https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8710274/
U2 - 10.1109/COMST.2019.2915981
DO - 10.1109/COMST.2019.2915981
M3 - Article
SN - 1553-877X
VL - 21
SP - 3175
EP - 3203
JO - IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials
JF - IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials
IS - 4
ER -