Title :
Experimental evaluation of modal crosstalk in two-mode fibre and its impact on optical MIMO transmission
Author :
Mori, Takayoshi ; Sakamoto, Takanori ; Wada, Masaki ; Yamamoto, Takayuki ; Yamamoto, Fumihiko
Author_Institution :
NTT Access Network Service Syst. Labs., NTT Corp., Tsukuba, Japan
Abstract :
We evaluate experimentally the relationship between modal crosstalk in two-mode fibres and the propagation constant difference between modes. We show experimentally that modal crosstalk leads to signal degradation when there is a power difference between modes even with MIMO processing.
Keywords :
MIMO communication; optical crosstalk; optical fibre networks; modal crosstalk; optical MIMO transmission; propagation constant; signal degradation; two-mode fibre; Crosstalk; Indexes; Loss measurement; MIMO; Optical fibers; Q-factor; Windings;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2014 European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Cannes
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2014.6963929
