Title :
Impact of constant linear mode coupling on the nonlinear transmission performance of few-mode fibers
Author :
An Li ; Jia Ye ; Xi Chen ; Shieh, William
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Univ. of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Abstract :
We present a nonlinear propagation model for the few-mode fiber based transmission systems. Simulation results show that for 16QAM-CO-OFDM over 10 × 100 km bi-modal fiber link, the Q factor can be improved by 5.3 dB (DMD = 1 ns/km).
Keywords :
OFDM modulation; Q-factor; multiplexing; nonlinear optics; optical fibres; optical links; quadrature amplitude modulation; 16QAM-CO-OFDM; Q factor; bi-modal fiber link; few-mode fiber based transmission systems; few-mode fibers; linear mode coupling; nonlinear propagation model; nonlinear transmission;
Conference_Titel :
Communications and Photonics Conference (ACP), 2012 Asia
Conference_Location :
Guangzhou
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-6274-0
