MIMOPT TECHNOLOGY to Present Research at ACP 2024, Beijing

MIMOPT TECHNOLOGY Presenting New Research at ACP 2024

We are excited to announce that MIMOPT TECHNOLOGY has a paper accepted at the Asia Communications and Photonics Conference (ACP/IPOC 2024), taking place in Beijing, China from 2 to 5 November 2024. The paper is co-authored by Akram Abouseif, Ghaya Rekaya-Ben Othman, Yves Jaouën, Jamal Darweesh, and Rami Klaimi, and will be presented by Yves Jaouën. If you are attending ACP 2024, we warmly invite you to come along, catch the presentation, and meet the team!

What the Research Is About

Next-generation optical networks are exploring fibres that carry multiple parallel data streams simultaneously — a technology known as multi-core fibre. One of the key challenges with these fibres is signal degradation caused by physical impairments that affect different cores differently. Two of the most significant are polarisation-dependent loss (PDL), which affects how the light’s orientation degrades, and core-dependent loss (CDL), which causes unequal signal quality across the different cores.

In this paper, the MIMOPT team proposes a technique based on IQ coding — a way of encoding data across both the amplitude and phase of a light signal — combined with a core permutation strategy, to combat both PDL and CDL at once. By applying a straightforward signal decoding method at the receiver, the approach achieves a gain of 0.9 dB at the forward error correction (FEC) limit. That may sound modest, but in the world of long-haul optical transmission, every fraction of a decibel translates directly into greater reach and reliability.

About ACP

The Asia Communications and Photonics Conference (ACP) is one of the largest and most influential annual conferences in the Asia-Pacific region covering optical communications, photonics, and related technologies. Co-organised with the Information Photonics and Optical Communications conference (IPOC), ACP 2024 brings together leading researchers, engineers, and industry professionals from across the globe to share the latest advances in optical networking and photonic systems.

Conference: Asia Communications and Photonics Conference (ACP/IPOC 2024), Beijing, China, 2–5 November 2024

Authors: Akram Abouseif, Ghaya Rekaya-Ben Othman, Yves Jaouën, Jamal Darweesh, Rami Klaimi

Paper: IEEE Xplore — DOI: 10.1109/ACP/IPOC63183.2024.10810082