Solid-state 360 & DEG; optical beamforming for reconfigurable multicast optical wireless communications
Optics Express(2023)
Abstract
Optical wireless communication is an attractive technique for data center interconnects due to its low latency line-of-sight connectivity. Multicast, on the other hand, is an important data center network function that can improve traffic throughput, reduce latency, and make efficient use of network resources. To enable reconfigurable multicast in data center optical wireless networks, we propose a novel 360 & DEG; optical beamforming scheme based on the principle of superposition of orbital angular momentum modes, emitting beams from the source rack pointing towards any combination of other racks so that connections are established between the source and multiple destination racks. We experimentally demonstrate the scheme using solid state devices for a scenario where racks are arranged in a hexagonal formation in which a source rack can connect with any number of adjacent racks simultaneously, with each link transmitting 70 Gb/s on-off-keying modulations at bit error rates of <10-6 at 1.5-m and 2.0-m link distances.& COPY; 2023 Optica Publishing Group under the terms of the Optica Open Access Publishing Agreement
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Key words
optical beamforming,solid-state
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