6×6 MIMO transmission over 50+25+10 km heterogeneous spans of few-mode fiber with inline erbium-doped fiber amplifier

Author

Ip, Ezra ; Bai, Neng ; Huang, Yue-Kai ; Mateo, Eduardo ; Yaman, Fatih ; Li, Ming-Jun ; Bickham, Scott ; Ten, Sergey ; Liñares, Jesús ; Montero, Carlos ; Moreno, Vicente ; Prieto, Xesús ; Luo, Yanhua ; Peng, Gang-Ding ; Li, Guifang ; Wang, Ting

Author_Institution

NEC Labs. America, Princeton, NJ, USA

fYear

2012

fDate

4-8 March 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

We demonstrate mode-division multiplexed transmission using the LP₀₁ and LP₁₁ modes over three heterogeneous spans of few-mode fiber and investigate the impact of fusion splicing and free-space coupling on mode mixing.

Keywords

MIMO communication; erbium; multiplexing; optical communication equipment; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre fabrication; splicing; LP₀₁ modes; LP₁₁ modes; MIMO transmission; few-mode fiber; free-space coupling; fusion splicing; heterogeneous spans; inline erbium-doped fiber amplifier; mode mixing; mode-division multiplexed transmission; Couplings; Delay; MIMO; Multiplexing; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber polarization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC/NFOEC), 2012 and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference

Conference_Location

Los Angeles, CA

ISSN

pending

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0262-3

Type

conf

Filename

6192056