Title :
Design of 125 μm cladding multi-core fiber with full-band compatibility to conventional single-mode fiber
Author :
Takashi Matsui;Taiji Sakamoto;Yukihiro Goto;Kotaro Saito;Kazuhide Nakajima;Fumihiko Yamamoto;Toshio Kurashima
Author_Institution :
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, 1-7-1 Hanabatake, Tsukuba, 305-0805, Japan
Abstract :
We realize a multi-core fiber (MCF) fully compatible with conventional single-mode fiber (SMF) in all telecommunication bands while maintaining 125 μm cladding. The designed MCF enables us to construct a full-band SDM transmission link harmonizing with existing SMF links.
Keywords :
"Optical fiber cables","Optical fibers","Optical fiber networks","Optical device fabrication","Loss measurement"
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2015 European Conference on
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2015.7341966
