• DocumentCode
    1794019
  • Title

    Long-haul transmission using multicore fibers

  • Author

    Takahashi, Hiroki ; Igarashi, Koji ; Tsuritani, Takehiro

  • Author_Institution
    KDDI R&D Labs. Inc., Kamifukuoka, Japan
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    9-13 March 2014
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    We review recent progress of long-haul transmission over 6,000 km using multicore fiber (MCF) repeatered with multicore (MC)-EDFA. The capacity-distance product has been increased from 177 Pbit/s·km to 1.03 Ebit/s·km.
  • Keywords
    erbium; light transmission; optical fibre amplifiers; MC-EDFA; capacity-distance product; long-haul transmission; multicore fiber; Multicore processing; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber networks; Q-factor; Signal to noise ratio;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2014
  • Conference_Location
    San Francisco, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-5575-2994-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1364/OFC.2014.Tu2J.1
  • Filename
    6886921