Title :
1705-km transmission over coupled-core fibre supporting 6 spatial modes
Author :
Ryf, R. ; Fontaine, Nicolas K. ; Guan, B. ; Essiambre, R.-J. ; Randel, S. ; Gnauck, A.H. ; Chandrasekhar, S. ; Adamiecki, A. ; Raybon, G. ; Ercan, Burcu ; Scott, Ryan P. ; Ben Yoo, S.J. ; Hayashi, Teruaki ; Nagashima, Tomoharu ; Sasaki, T.
Author_Institution :
Bell Labs., Alcatel-Lucent, Holmdel, NJ, USA
Abstract :
We present experimental transmission results for a novel 6-core coupled-core fibre with 125 μm cladding diameter. We transmit combined 2-polarization, 6-SDM and 30-WDM channels over a distance of 1705 km, with a spectral-efficiency-distance product of 30690 bit/s/Hz km.
Keywords :
optical fibres; space division multiplexing; wavelength division multiplexing; 2-polarization channel; 30-WDM channel; 6-SDM channel; 6-core coupled-core fibre; space-division multiplexed systems; spatial modes; spectral-efficiency-distance product; Couplers; Couplings; Crosstalk; MIMO; Multicore processing; Optical switches; Waveguide lasers;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2014 European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Cannes
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2014.6964273
