Title :
Impact of mode coupling on the mode-dependent loss tolerance in few-mode fiber transmission
Author :
Lobato, Adriana ; Ferreira, Flora ; Kuschnerov, M. ; van den Borne, Dirk ; Jansen, S.L. ; Spinnler, Bernhard ; Lankl, Berthold
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Fed. Armed Forces Munich, Munich, Germany
Abstract :
In this work the impact of mode-dependent loss (MDL) from optical amplifiers in few-mode fibers with weak and strong mode coupling is analyzed. For a 409-Gbit/s 3MDM-DP-QPSK system it is shown that strong mode coupling reduces the impact of MDL in a similar manner polarization-dependent loss is reduced by polarization-mode dispersion.
Keywords :
optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre networks; optical fibre polarisation; quadrature phase shift keying; 3MDM-DP-QPSK system; MDL impact; bit rate 409 Gbit/s; few-mode fiber transmission; mode coupling impact; mode-dependent loss tolerance; optical amplifiers; polarization-dependent loss; polarization-mode dispersion; Couplings; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber networks; Optical fiber polarization; Optical noise; Signal to noise ratio;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communications (ECOC), 2012 38th European Conference and Exhibition on
Conference_Location :
Amsterdam
