Title : 
Optical technologies for space division multiplexing
         
        
            Author : 
Klaus, Werner ; Sakaguchi, Jun ; Puttnam, B.J. ; Awaji, Y. ; Wada, N.
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Photonic Network Syst. Lab., Nat. Inst. of Inf. & Commun. Technol., Koganei, Japan
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
Many technological challenges have to be overcome before a cost and energy efficient fiber communication system based on space division multiplexing (SDM) can be realized. In this paper we review recent R&D efforts in developing optical components for SDM networks.
         
        
            Keywords : 
optical communication equipment; optical fibre communication; optical fibre networks; research and development; space division multiplexing; R&D; SDM networks; cost efficient fiber communication system; energy efficient fiber communication system; optical components; optical technologies; space division multiplexing; Multicore processing; Multiplexing; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber networks; fiber optics; multicore fiber; multiplexer; optical amplifier; space division multiplexing;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Information Optics (WIO), 2014 13th Workshop on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Neuchatel
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/WIO.2014.6933294