• DocumentCode
    2158220
  • Title

    Coherent 1200-km 6×6 MIMO mode-multiplexed transmission over 3-core microstructured fiber

  • Author

    Ryf, R. ; Sierra, A. ; Essiambre, R.J. ; Gnauck, A.H. ; Randel, S. ; Esmaeelpour, M. ; Mumtaz, S. ; Winzer, P.J. ; Delbue, R. ; Pupalaikis, P. ; Sureka, A. ; Hayashi, T. ; Taru, T. ; Sasaki, T.

  • Author_Institution
    Bell Labs., Alcatel-Lucent, Holmdel, NJ, USA
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    18-22 Sept. 2011
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    We experimentally demonstrate transmission of 6 mode-multiplexed 20-Gbd-QPSK signals over 1200 km of three-core microstructured fiber (3C-MSF). An aggregate single-wavelength capacity of 240 Gbit/s is recovered by off-line 6×6 coherent multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) digital signal processing.
  • Keywords
    MIMO communication; multiplexing; optical fibre networks; quadrature phase shift keying; 3C-MSF; 6 mode-multiplexed QPSK signal; MIMO digital signal processing; MIMO transmission; aggregate single-wavelength capacity; multiple-input multiple-output digital signal processing; three-core microstructured fiber; Delay; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; MIMO; Multiplexing; Optical coupling; Optical polarization; Phase shift keying;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communication (ECOC), 2011 37th European Conference and Exhibition on
  • Conference_Location
    Geneva
  • ISSN
    Pending
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-1918-9
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6065935