September 13, 2018
High Capacity Transmission with Few-Mode Fibers
- Agrell E.
- Aikawa K.
- Awaji Y.
- Eriksson T.
- Furukawa H.
- Luis R.
- Maruyama R.
- Puttnam B.
- Rademacher G.
- Ryf R.
- Wada N.
IEEE We experimentally investigate high-capacity fewmode fiber transmission for short and medium-haul optical links. In separate experiments, we demonstrate C + L band transmission of 283 Tbit/s over a single 30 km span and recirculating loop transmission of 159 Tbit/s over 1045 km graded-index three mode fiber. The first experiment reached a data-rate per fiber mode within 90% of the record data-rates reported in the same transmission bands for single-mode fibers. The second experiment demonstrated the feasibility of reaching high datarates over long distance few-mode fiber transmission, despite strong impairments due to mode-dependent loss and differential mode delay.
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