Crosstalk-Managed Heterogeneous Single-Mode 32-Core Fibre

Conference: ECOC 2016 - 42nd European Conference on Optical Communication
09/18/2016 - 09/22/2016 at Düsseldorf, Deutschland

Proceedings: ECOC 2016

Pages: 3Language: englishTyp: PDF

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Authors:
Sasaki, Yusuke; Fukumoto, Ryohei; Takenaga, Katsuhiro; Aikawa, Kazuhiko (Advanced Technology Laboratory, Fujikura Ltd., 1440, Mutsuzaki, Sakura, Chiba, Japan)
Saitoh, Kunimasa (Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan)
Morioka, Toshio (Department of Photonics Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark)
Miyamoto, Yutaka (NTT Network Innovation Laboratories, NTT Corporation, Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan)

Abstract:
A heterogeneous single-mode 32-core fibre with a cladding diameter of 243 µm is designed and fabricated. The highest core count in single-mode multi-core fibres and low worst-case crosstalk of less than −24 dB/1000 km in C-band are achieved simultaneously.