Employing Prism-Based Three-Spot Mode Couplers for High Capacity MDM/WDM Transmission

Author

Haoshuo Chen ; Sleiffer, Vincent ; Huijskens, F. ; van Uden, Roy ; Okonkwo, Chigo ; Leoni, P. ; Kuschnerov, M. ; Gruner-Nielsen, L. ; Yi Sun ; de Waardt, H. ; Koonen, Ton

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Eindhoven Univ. of Technol., Eindhoven, Netherlands

Volume

25

Issue

24

fYear

2013

fDate

Dec.15, 2013

Firstpage

2474

Lastpage

2477

Abstract

Based on a three-surface prism, a free space design of the three-spot mode coupler, supporting LP01 and LP11 modes, is introduced in this letter. We demonstrate 7.68 Tbit/s transmission of three mode division multiplexing (MDM) × 8 wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) × 320-Gb/s dual-polarization (DP)-32QAM over a 120 km differential-group-delay (DGD)-compensated few-mode fiber (FMF) by employing the proposed spot couplers.

Keywords

polarisation; quadrature amplitude modulation; wavelength division multiplexing; 32QAM; DGD; FMF; MDM-WDM transmission; bit rate 320 Gbit/s; bit rate 7.68 Tbit/s; compensated few-mode fiber; differential-group-delay; dual-polarization; free space design; mode division multiplexing; prism-based three-spot mode coupler; three-surface prism; wavelength division multiplexing; Bit error rate; Couplers; Optical fiber couplers; Optical fiber polarization; Optical noise; Wavelength division multiplexing; Mode division multiplexing (MDM); coherent detection; few-mode fiber (FMF); free space optics; quadrature amplitude modulation;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2013.2286826

Filename

6644255