Title :
480 km transmission of MDM 576-Gb/s 8QAM using a few-mode re-circulating loop
Author :
Sleiffer, V.A.J.M. ; Chen, Huanting ; Jung, Yongmin ; Kuschnerov, M. ; Richardson, D.J. ; Alam, S.U. ; Sun, Yue ; Gruner-Nielsen, L. ; Pavarelli, Nicola ; Snyder, Brett ; O´Brien, Peter ; Ellis, A.D. ; Koonen, A.M.J. ; de Waardt, H.
Author_Institution :
COBRA Inst., Eindhoven Univ. of Technol.Eindhoven, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Abstract :
We demonstrate successful 3-mode-division-multiplexed × 192-Gb/s dual-polarization 8QAM (total 576 Gb/s) transmission over 480 km of few-mode fiber (FMF). This distance was obtained using an all few-mode re-circulating loop containing a 60 km FMF span.
Keywords :
optical fibre communication; quadrature amplitude modulation; space division multiplexing; 3-mode-division-multiplexed dual-polarization 8QAM; MDM 8QAM; bit rate 576 Gbit/s; distance 480 km; few-mode fiber; few-mode re-circulating loop; transmission; Couplers; Modulation; Multiplexing; Optical fiber couplers; Optical fiber polarization; Optical transmitters;
Conference_Titel :
Photonics Conference (IPC), 2013 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Bellevue, WA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1506-8
DOI :
10.1109/IPCon.2013.6656426
