A Bidirectional Wavelength Division Multiplexed (WDM) Free Space Optical Communication (FSO) System for Deployment in Data Center Networks (DCNs)

Fady El-Nahal; Tianhua Xu; Dokhyl AlQahtani; Mark Leeson

doi:10.3390/s22249703

A Bidirectional Wavelength Division Multiplexed (WDM) Free Space Optical Communication (FSO) System for Deployment in Data Center Networks (DCNs)

Fady El-Nahal, Tianhua Xu, Dokhyl AlQahtani, Mark Leeson

Electrical Engineering

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Data centers are crucial to the growth of cloud computing. Next-generation data center networks (DCNs) will rely heavily on optical technology. Here, we have investigated a bidirectional wavelength-division-multiplexed (WDM) free space optical communication (FSO) system for deployment in optical wireless DCNs. The system was evaluated for symmetric 10 Gbps 16—quadrature amplitude modulation (16-QAM) intensity-modulated orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) downstream signals and 10 Gbps on-off keying (OOK) upstream signals, respectively. The transmission of optical signals over an FSO link is demonstrated using a gamma–gamma channel model. According to the bit error rate (BER) results obtained for each WDM signal, the bidirectional WDM-FSO transmission could achieve 320 Gbps over 1000 m free space transmission length. The results show that the proposed FSO topology offers an excellent alternative to fiber-based optical interconnects in DCNs, allowing for high data rate bidirectional transmission.

Original language	English
Article number	9703
Journal	Sensors
Volume	22
Issue number	24
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/s22249703
State	Published - Dec 2022

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free space optics
wavelength division multiplexed
wireless data center networks

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