Title :
Few-mode multi-core fibre with highest core multiplicity factor
Author :
Taiji Sakamoto;Takashi Matsui;Kunimasa Saitoh;Shota Saitoh;Katsuhiro Takenaga;Shoichiro Matsuo;Yuki Tobita;Nobutomo Hanzawa;Kazuhide Nakajima;Fumihiko Yamamoto
Author_Institution :
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, 1-7-1 Hanabatake, Tsukuba, 305-0805, Japan
Abstract :
The highest relative core multiplicity factor of more than 22 is achieved by arranging a 6-mode 12-core fibre in 227-μm cladding. A quadratic double ring core arrangement realizes sufficiently low crosstalk and enables us to use advanced multi-level modulation.
Keywords :
"Crosstalk","Optical fibers","Optical fiber communication","Multiplexing","Structural rings","Structural engineering","Attenuation"
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2015 European Conference on
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2015.7341964
