Title :
Impulse response analysis of coupled-core 3-core fibers
Author :
Ryf, R. ; Essiambre, R.-J. ; Randel, S. ; Mestre, M.A. ; Schmidt, Christoph ; Winzer, P.J.
Author_Institution :
Bell Labs., Alcatel-Lucent, Holmdel, NJ, USA
Abstract :
We report the experimental impulse response of coupled-core 3-core fibers and compare the results against super-mode calculations. We show that for small coupling between cores, the impulse response is dominated by core-to-core variations of the fiber parameters.
Keywords :
optical fibre testing; transient response; core-to-core variations; coupled-core 3-core fibers; fiber parameters; impulse response analysis; Couplings; Crosstalk; Delays; Multicore processing; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fiber theory; Vectors;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communications (ECOC), 2012 38th European Conference and Exhibition on
Conference_Location :
Amsterdam
