Group Delay Spread in Graded-Index 10-Spatial-Mode Fibers

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:
Castineiras Carrero, Carmen C. (Prysmian Group, Parc des Industries Artois Flandres, 644 boulevard Est, Billy Berclau, 62092 Haisnes Cedex, France & Université de Lille-CNRS, Bât. IRCICA, 50 avenue Halley, 59658 Villeneuve d'Ascq, France)
Molin, Denis; Bigot-Astruc, Marianne; Sillard, Pierre (Prysmian Group, Parc des Industries Artois Flandres, 644 boulevard Est, Billy Berclau, 62092 Haisnes Cedex, France)
Bigot, Laurent; Quiquempois, Yves (Université de Lille-CNRS, Bât. IRCICA, 50 avenue Halley, 59658 Villeneuve d'Ascq, France)

Abstract:
We theoretically investigate the group delay spread (GDS) of 10-spatial-mode fibers. The strongly-coupled regime leading to the increase of GDS with the square root of distance is only achieved for high perturbations and below a certain effective index difference value.