Title :
Scalability of few-mode fibers for mode-division-multiplexed systems
Author_Institution :
Prysmian Group, Haisnes, France
Abstract :
We investigate the impact of the increase of the number of LP modes supported by few-mode fibers on their main characteristics, pointing out the limiting factors of this increase.
Keywords :
multiplexing; optical fibre communication; optical fibre testing; LP modes; few-mode fibers; few-mode fibers scalabilt; Attenuation; Indexes; Limiting; Multiplexing; Optical fiber polarization; Sensitivity;
Conference_Titel :
Photonics Conference (IPC), 2014 IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
DOI :
10.1109/IPCon.2014.6995479
