Title :
Microbending-induced crosstalk increase in heterogeneous multi-core fiber
Author :
Hayashi, Tetsuya ; Sasaki, Takashi ; Sasaoka, Eisuke
Author_Institution :
Opt. Commun. R&D Labs., Sumitomo Electr. Ind., Ltd., Yokohama, Japan
Abstract :
Inter-core crosstalk of a heterogeneous multi-core fiber was experimentally observed to increase more than 10 dB by applying microbending to the fiber. The increase was described theoretically based on bending-radius dependence of the crosstalk.
Keywords :
bending; crosstalk; optical fibres; bending-radius dependence; heterogeneous multicore fiber; inter-core crosstalk; microbending-induced crosstalk; Crosstalk; Multicore processing; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fiber theory; Probability distribution;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2011 37th European Conference and Exhibition on
Conference_Location :
Geneva
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1918-9
