Title :
Demonstration of PLC-based six-mode multiplexer for mode division multiplexing transmission
Author :
Nobutomo Hanzawa;Kunimasa Saitoh;Taiji Sakamoto;Takashi Matsui;Kyozo Tsujikawa;Takeshi Fujisawa;Yuhei Ishizaka;Fumihiko Yamamoto
Author_Institution :
NTT Access Network Service Systems Laboratories, NTT Corporation, Hanabatake 1-7-1, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
Abstract :
We demonstrated a six-spatial-mode multiplexer using effective index matching and adiabatic mode transition. Six-mode multiplexing including the equal effective indices of LP21b and LP02 was successfully achieved with a fabricated PLC on one chip.
Keywords :
"Couplings","Multiplexing","Optical waveguides","Waveguide transitions","Rectangular waveguides","Indexes","Optical fiber communication"
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2015 European Conference on
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2015.7341717
