Title :
Crosstalk reduction using bidirectional signal assignment over square lattice structure 16-core fiber for gradual upgrade of SSMF-based lines
Author :
Manabu Arikawa;Toshiharu Ito;Emmanuel Le Taillandier de Gabory;Kiyoshi Fukuchi
Author_Institution :
Green Platform Research Laboratories, NEC Corporation, 1753 Shimonumabe, Nakahara-ku Kawasaki, 211-8666, Japan
Abstract :
We demonstrate crosstalk reduction using bidirectional signal assignment on WDM transmission of 256 Gb/s PM-16QAM over square lattice structure 16-core fiber. Mixed SSMF and MCF transmission with 6 spans of MCF is possible with Q crosstalk penalty below 0.5 dB.
Keywords :
"Optical fiber polarization","Crosstalk","Optical fiber devices","Wavelength division multiplexing","Optical fiber networks","Optical fiber dispersion","Lattices"
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2015 European Conference on
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2015.7341839
