Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 2006 · 24 citations · 0 references
Free-space Optical NetworkPhotonicsSight DemonstrationMimo SystemEngineeringRadio FrequencyMimoOptical WirelessMultiuser MimoAntennaSimple LineOptical Wireless CommunicationRadio Over FiberOptical SystemsOptical CommunicationOptoelectronicsOptical NetworkingOptical Computing
Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) Radio Frequency (RF) systems can offer substantial increases in capacity over their single antenna wireless link counterparts. In the case of optical wireless links the nature of the channel makes such benefits less clear however. In this paper the likely benefits and applications are discussed, and results from a simple line of sight demonstration are presented.