Demonstration of a photonic integrated mode coupler with 3.072Tb/s MDM and WDM transmission over few-mode fiber

Author

Haoshuo Chen ; Sleiffer, Vincent ; Snyder, Brett ; Kuschnerov, M. ; van Uden, Roy ; Yongmin Jung ; Okonkwo, Chigo ; Raz, Oded ; O´Brien, Peter ; de Waardt, H. ; Koonen, Ton

Author_Institution

COBRA Inst., Eindhoven Univ. of Technol., Eindhoven, Netherlands

fYear

2013

fDate

June 30 2013-July 4 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

We demonstrate 3.072Tb/s (6 spatial-and-polarization modes×4 WDM×128-Gb/s 16QAM) transmission over 30km few-mode fiber by employing a photonic integrated mode coupler, which utilizes push-pull and center launch for exciting LP₁₁ and LP₀₁ modes through mode-profile match.

Keywords

optical communication equipment; optical fibre couplers; optical fibre networks; quadrature amplitude modulation; wavelength division multiplexing; 16QAM; MDM; WDM transmission; bit rate 128 Gbit/s; bit rate 3.072 Tbit/s; distance 30 km; few mode fiber; mode division multiplexing; mode profile match; photonic integrated mode coupler; spatial-and-polarization mode; wavelength division multiplexing; Couplers; Couplings; Gratings; Optical fiber couplers; Optical fiber networks; Optical fiber polarization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

OptoElectronics and Communications Conference held jointly with 2013 International Conference on Photonics in Switching (OECC/PS), 2013 18th

Conference_Location

Kyoto

Type

conf

Filename

6597641