Title :
72-Tb/s transmission over 179-km all-fiber 6-mode span with two cladding pumped in-line amplifiers
Author :
R. Ryf;N. K. Fontaine;H. Chen;A. H. Gnauck;Y. Jung;Q. Kang;J. K. Sahu;S. U. Alam;D. J. Richardson;Y. Sun;X. Jiang;L. Grüner-Nielsen;R. V. Jensen;R. Lingle
Author_Institution :
Bell Laboratories, Alcatel-Lucent, 791 Holmdel-Keyport Rd, Holmdel, NJ, 07733, USA
Abstract :
We demonstrate mode-multiplexed transmission over all-fiber optically amplified spans of 215 km and 179 km for 3 and 6 spatial modes, respectively. The spans were amplified using two cladding-pumped few-mode fiber amplifiers.
Keywords :
"Wavelength division multiplexing","Photonics","Optical pumping","Erbium-doped fiber amplifiers","Gain","Yttrium"
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2015 European Conference on
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2015.7341936