• DocumentCode
    1794021
  • Title

    Ultra-high capacity transmission with few-mode silica and hollow-core photonic bandgap fibers

  • Author

    Sleiffer, V.A.J.M. ; Leoni, P. ; Jung, Yongmin ; Chen, Huanting ; Kuschnerov, M. ; Alam, S.U. ; Petrovich, M. ; Poletti, F. ; Wheeler, N.V. ; Baddela, N. ; Hayes, J. ; Numkam Fokoua, E. ; Richardson, D.J. ; Gruner-Nielsen, L. ; Sun, Yue ; de Waardt, H.

  • Author_Institution
    COBRA Inst., Eindhoven Univ. of Technol., Eindhoven, Netherlands
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    9-13 March 2014
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    We review the capacity records achieved using mode-division multiplexing in few-mode fiber and hollow-core photonic bandgap fibers. Currently the MDM-capacity record for both fiber types is 73.7 Tb/s, whereas per wavelength 960 Gb/s is achieved.
  • Keywords
    optical communication equipment; optical fibre communication; photonic band gap; silicon compounds; wavelength division multiplexing; MDM-capacity record; SiO2; bit rate 960 Gbit/s; few-mode silica fiber; hollow-core photonic bandgap fibers; mode-division multiplexing; ultra-high capacity transmission; Bit error rate; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber networks; Optical fiber polarization; Wavelength division multiplexing;
  • 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.M2F.4
  • Filename
    6886922