Long-Distance Transmission over Coupled-Core Multicore Fiber

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

Proceedings: ECOC 2016 – Post Deadline Paper

Pages: 3Language: englishTyp: PDF

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Authors:
Ryf, Roland; Fontaine, Nicolas K.; Chen, Haoshuo; Essiambre, Rene-Jean; Burrows, Ellsworth (Nokia Bell Labs, 791 Holmdel Rd, Holmdel, NJ, 07733, USA)
Alvarado, Juan Carlos; Huang, Bin (Nokia Bell Labs, 791 Holmdel Rd, Holmdel, NJ, 07733, USA & CREOL, the University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida 32816, USA)
Antonio-Lopez, Jose; Amezcua-Correa, Rodrigo (CREOL, the University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida 32816, USA)
Chang, Sun Hyok (Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), Yuseonggu, Daejeon, 305-700, Korea)
Hayashi, Tetsuya; Tamura, Yoshiaki; Hasegawa, Takemi; Taru, Toshiki (Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., 1, Taya-cho, Sakae-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa, 244-8588, Japan)

Abstract:
We demonstrate combined wavelength- and space-multiplexed long-distance transmission over a coupled-core fiber with 4 cores. The fiber shows a very small impulse response spread, achieves performance that can exceed single-mode fiber, while providing 4 times the capacity.