Title :
Experimental investigation of relation between mode-coupling and fiber characteristics in few-mode fibers
Author :
Maruyama, Ryo ; Kuwaki, Nobuo ; Matsuo, Shoichiro ; Ohashi, Masaharu
Author_Institution :
Opt. & Electron. Lab., Fujikura Ltd., Chiba, Japan
Abstract :
We experimentally clarify that relation between mode-coupling coefficient h and effective-index difference Δneff in few-mode fibers (FMFs) by impulse response technique and h in our fabricated FMFs with Δneff ≥ 1.7 × 10-3 converges to 7.4×10-5 1/km.
Keywords :
multiplexing; optical fibre communication; effective-index difference; few-mode fibers; fiber characteristics; impulse response technique; mode division multiplexing fibre transmission; mode-coupling coefficient; Optical losses; Propagation losses;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2015
Conference_Location :
Los Angeles, CA