Title :
Comparing inter-core skew fluctuations in multi-core and single-core fibers
Author :
Luis, Ruben S. ; Puttnam, Benjamin J. ; Delgado Mendinueta, Jose-Manuel ; Klaus, Werner ; Awaji, Yoshinari ; Wada, Naoya
Author_Institution :
Photonic Network Syst. Lab., Nat. Inst. of Inf. & Commun. Technol., Koganei, Japan
Abstract :
We measure the dynamic skew fluctuations between cores in a multicore fiber and show that they are more than one order of magnitude smaller than those of parallel single-core fibers over a 24 hour period.
Keywords :
fluctuations; optical fibre communication; optical fibres; dynamic skew fluctuations; inter-core skew fluctuations; multi-core fibers; parallel single-core fibers; time 24 hour; Delays; Fluctuations; Multicore processing; Optical fiber networks; Optical fiber polarization; Propagation delay;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2015 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
