Abstract

We experimentally demonstrate an elliptical-aperture multimode diversity receiver to mitigate the impairment from anisotropic turbulence, which is emulated by employing an electrically-controlled heater. The anisotropy gradually decreases as the flow-level of the introduced airflow from fans increases. In contrast to circular-aperture reception, the elliptical-aperture multimode diversity receiver can effectively resist beam wander under anisotropic turbulence, reducing outage probability from 14.63% to 0.38% for detecting a dual-polarization 30-Gbaud QPSK signal. Without the aid of an adaptive optics system, this work demonstrates the feasibility of realizing an anisotropic-turbulence-resistant FSO link using multimode and multi-aperture diversity reception employing digital coherent combining techniques.

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