Title :
Progress of space division multiplexing technology for future optical networks
Author :
Sakaguchi, Jun ; Klaus, Werner ; Puttnam, B.J. ; Mendinueta, Jose Manuel D. ; Awaji, Y. ; Wada, N.
Author_Institution :
Photonic Network Syst. Lab., Nat. Inst. of Inf. & Commun. Technol. (NICT), Koganei, Japan
Abstract :
We review research progress on new optical devices for SDM networks. Component sharing is expected to be effective for cost reduction, but further improvement of SDM-device performance is needed to realize practical SDM networks.
Keywords :
cost reduction; optical fibre amplifiers; passive optical networks; space division multiplexing; SDM; component sharing; cost reduction; future optical networks; space division multiplexing technology; Erbium-doped fiber amplifiers; Multicore processing; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber couplers; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber networks; Optical switches; Fiber optics amplifiers; Fiber optics components; Multi-core fiber; Multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Internet 2014 (COIN), 2014 12th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Jeju
DOI :
10.1109/COIN.2014.6950564
