Demonstration of long lengths of longitudinally uniform hollow core Photonic Bandgap fibre and their demonstration for low latency data transmission

Author

Petrovich, M.N. ; Chen, Y. ; Bradley, T. ; Sandoghchi, S.R. ; Wheeler, N.V. ; Hayes, J.R. ; Jasion, G.T. ; Fokoua, E. Numkam ; Poletti, F. ; Liu, Z. ; Slavik, R. ; Richardson, D.J.

Author_Institution

Optoelectron. Res. Centre, Univ. of Southampton, Southampton, UK

fYear

2015

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

Hollow core Photonic Bandgap fibres (HC-PBGFs) are the subject of substantial interest due to their intrinsically low nonlinearity and latency, which represent a substantial advantage over conventional, solid fibres. In this paper, we review recent progress at the ORC towards achieving long lengths of uniform fibre and in particular describe the fabrication of a 11 km long span of HC-PBGF with relatively low loss (~5 dB/km), wide bandwidth (~200 nm) and good longitudinal uniformity. The fibre span was able to support error free transmission at 10 Gbit/s across the entire C-Band. We believe this represents a major stepping stone in the demonstration of the viability of this technology for low-latency data transmission.

Keywords

optical fibre fabrication; optical fibre networks; photonic band gap; HC-PBGF; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; data transmission; distance 11 km; error free transmission; hollow core photonic bandgap fibre; solid fibres; Bandwidth; Data communication; Fabrication; Loss measurement; Optical fibers; Photonic bandgap fibers; Propagation losses; fibre fabrication; hollow core; low latency; low nonlinearity; microstructured fibres; optical telecommunications; photonic bandgap fibres;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2015 17th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Budapest

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2015.7193386

Filename

7193386