Title :
Low delay and large effective area few-mode fibers for mode-division multiplexing
Author :
Li, Ming-Jun ; Hoover, Brett ; Li, Shenping ; Bickham, Scott ; Ten, Sergey ; Ip, Ezra ; Huang, Yue-Kai ; Mateo, Eduardo ; Shao, Yin ; Wang, Ting
Author_Institution :
Corning Inc., Corning, NY, USA
Abstract :
We report graded index few mode fiber designs for mode-division multiplexing and demonstrate a 100-km few-mode fiber span with effective areas larger than 160 μm2 and differential mode group delay of less than 6 ps/km.
Keywords :
delays; gradient index optics; optical design techniques; optical fibre fabrication; space division multiplexing; differential mode group delay; distance 100 km; graded index few mode fiber designs; large effective area few-mode fibers; low delay few-mode fibres; mode-division multiplexing; Delay; Indexes; MIMO; Multiplexing; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber dispersion;
Conference_Titel :
Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference (OECC), 2012 17th
Conference_Location :
Busan
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-0976-9
Electronic_ISBN :
2166-8884
DOI :
10.1109/OECC.2012.6276539