Author :
Ip, Ezra ; Bai, Neng ; Huang, Yue-Kai ; Mateo, Eduardo ; Yaman, Fatih ; Li, Ming-Jun ; Bickham, Scott ; Ten, Sergey ; Liñares, Jesús ; Montero, Carlos ; Moreno, Vicente ; Prieto, Xesús ; Luo, Yanhua ; Peng, Gang-Ding ; Li, Guifang ; Wang, Ting
Author_Institution :
NEC Labs. America, Princeton, NJ, USA
Keywords :
MIMO communication; erbium; multiplexing; optical communication equipment; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre fabrication; splicing; LP01 modes; LP11 modes; MIMO transmission; few-mode fiber; free-space coupling; fusion splicing; heterogeneous spans; inline erbium-doped fiber amplifier; mode mixing; mode-division multiplexed transmission; Couplings; Delay; MIMO; Multiplexing; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber polarization;