Title :
19-core fiber transmission of 19×100×172-Gb/s SDM-WDM-PDM-QPSK signals at 305Tb/s
Author :
Sakaguchi, Jun ; Puttnam, Benjamin J. ; Klaus, Werner ; Awaji, Yoshinari ; Wada, Naoya ; Kanno, Atsushi ; Kawanishi, Tetsuya ; Imamura, Katsunori ; Inaba, Harumi ; Mukasa, Kazunori ; Sugizaki, Ryuichi ; Kobayashi, Tetsuya ; Watanabe, Masayuki
Author_Institution :
Nat. Inst. of Inf. & Commun. Technol., Koganei, Japan
Abstract :
A novel free-space coupling system combined with a multi-core fiber enables up-scaling to a record space-division-multiplexed (SDM) channel number of 19. We achieve 305-Tb/s transmission over 10.1 km using 19-SDM, 100-WDM PDM-QPSK signals.
Keywords :
optical fibre communication; optical modulation; quadrature phase shift keying; 19-core fiber transmission; SDM-WDM-PDM-QPSK signals; bit rate 305 Tbit/s; free-space coupling system; multi-core fiber; space-division-multiplexed channel number; up-scaling; Couplings; Laser beams; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber polarization; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC/NFOEC), 2012 and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference
Conference_Location :
Los Angeles, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-0262-3
