Title :
Space-Division Multiplexed High-Speed Superchannel Transmission Over Few-Mode Fiber
Author :
Li, An ; Chen, Xi ; Al Amin, Abdullah ; Ye, Jia ; Shieh, William
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Univ. of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Abstract :
Space-division multiplexed (SDM) transmission based on multi-core (MCF) or multi-mode fiber (MMF) emerges as one of the most promising solutions for overcoming the capacity limit of standard single mode fiber (SSMF). This paper places a focus on the MMF transmission for which a data rate of 100-Gb/s and beyond has been recently demonstrated through coherent-optical OFDM (CO-OFDM) and single-carrier (SC) superchannel transmission based on specially-designed few-mode fibers (FMF). However, to unleash the full potential of the high data rate SDM transmission requires brand-new research from device to system level. In this paper, we elucidate the overall system architecture, critical components and sub-system modules for SDM transmission and report the up-to-date demonstration of SDM superchannel transmission. We envisage that the combination of SDM and OFDM modulation could be a potential key route to the future Tb/s and beyond optical transports.
Keywords :
modules; optical communication equipment; optical fibre communication; optical fibres; space division multiplexing; telecommunication channels; OFDM modulation; SDM superchannel transmission; SSMF; coherent-optical OFDM; few-mode fiber; high-speed superchannel transmission; optical transports; space division multiplexing; standard single mode fiber; Coherence; Multiplexing; OFDM; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber networks; Coherent communications; few-mode fiber; multi-core fiber; optical communications; orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM); space-division-multiplexing;
Journal_Title :
Lightwave Technology, Journal of
DOI :
10.1109/JLT.2012.2206797
