Title :
Wavelength-selective switch for few-mode fiber transmission
Author :
Ryf, R. ; Fontaine, Nicolas K. ; Dunayevsky, J. ; Sinefeld, David ; Blau, Miri ; Montoliu, M. ; Randel, S. ; Chang Liu ; Ercan, Burcu ; Esmaeelpour, M. ; Chandrasekhar, S. ; Gnauck, A.H. ; Leon-Saval, Sergio G. ; Bland-Hawthorn, Joss ; Salazar-Gil, J.R. ;
Author_Institution :
Bell Labs., Alcatel-Lucent, Holmdel, NJ, USA
Abstract :
We demonstrate combined WDM/MDM transmission over a novel few-mode fiber based 1 × 9 wavelength-selective switch that supports fibers with 6 spatial and polarization modes. The effect on transmission of cascaded passband filtering and mode-dependent loss build-up is investigated in detail.
Keywords :
band-pass filters; optical fibre communication; optical fibre filters; optical fibre losses; optical fibre polarisation; optical switches; wavelength division multiplexing; WDM-MDM transmission; cascaded passband filtering; few-mode fiber transmission; mode-dependent loss; mode-division multiplexing; polarization modes; spatial modes; wavelength-selective switch;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC 2013), 39th European Conference and Exhibition on
Conference_Location :
London
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-84919-759-5
DOI :
10.1049/cp.2013.1681
