Title :
Impact of inter-core crosstalk on the transmission distance of QAM formats in multi-core fibers
Author :
B. J. Puttnam;R. S. Luís;W. Klaus;J-M. Delgado Mendinueta;Y. Awaji;N. Wada;T. A. Eriksson
Author_Institution :
Photonic Network Systems Laboratory, National Institute of Information &
Abstract :
We investigate the transmission distance of three QAM modulation formats, in the presence of inter-core crosstalk in a 7-core fiber. We show that crosstalk limits transmission distance for all formats with a greater impact on higher order modulation formats. For a crosstalk level equivalent to equal signal launch power in each core, we measure a reduced transmission distance at BER=1.5×10-2 of 17%, 23% and 36% for PDM-QPSK, PDM-16QAM and PDM-64QAM respectively.
Keywords :
"Crosstalk","Bit error rate","Optical fiber amplifiers","Optical fiber networks","Integrated optics"
Conference_Titel :
Photonics in Switching (PS), 2015 International Conference on
DOI :
10.1109/PS.2015.7328951
