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Asymmetrical bidirectional optical wireless communication system based on a transmissive 1D LC-SLM for NG-PON2

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An asymmetric bidirectional optical wireless communication (B-OWC) system using optical fibers as the transmitter and receiver and capable of wavelength switching is proposed for next generation passive optical network stage two (NG-PON2) extension to home area network (HAN), without optical/electrical (O/E) and electrical/optical (E/O) conversions, which is based on a transmissive “floating” pixel size one-dimensional (1D) liquid crystal spatial light modulator (LC-SLM) at the access node (AN) and a modulated retroreflector (MRR) at the terminal user (TU). The utilization of a reflective grating element and a low-cost LC-SLM in the AN offers a high flexibility of beam steering and wavelength selection in the scenario of B-OWC. Instead of a light source used at conventional TU, a MRR was employed at a TU in order to improve the problems of the power consumptions, alignment difficulties, wavelength contentions, and cost of the TUs. Downlink and uplink data transmissions at a link speed over 2.5 Gbits/s, using wavelengths between ${1590}\sim{1603}\;{\rm nm}$ and ${1524}\sim{1544}\;{\rm nm}$, respectively, corresponding to the downlink and uplink wavelengths specified by the NG-PON2 standard, have been experimentally demonstrated successfully, with quality factors (${\rm Q}$-factors) beyond the forward error correction limit (${\!Q} \hbox{-} {\rm factor} = {16.9}\;{\rm dB}$, bit error ${\rm rate} = {{10}^{- 12}}$).

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