WDM transmission at 2µm over low-loss Hollow Core Photonic Bandgap Fiber

Author

Mac Suibhne, N. ; Li, Zuyi ; Baeuerle, B. ; Zhao, Junhua ; Wooler, J.P. ; Alam, S.U. ; Poletti, F. ; Petrovich, M.N. ; Heidt, Alexander M. ; Wheeler, N.V. ; Baddela, N.K. ; Numkam, E. ; Giles, Ian P. ; Giles, D.J. ; Phelan, R. ; O´Carroll, J. ; Kelly, B.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Univ. Coll. Cork, Cork, Ireland

fYear

2013

fDate

17-21 March 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

World´s first demonstration of WDM transmission in a HC-PBGF at the predicted low loss region of 2μm is presented. A total capacity of 16 Gbit/s is achieved using 1×8.5 Gbit/s and 3×2.5 Gbit/s channels modulated using NRZ OOK over 290 meters of hollow core fiber.

Keywords

amplitude shift keying; channel capacity; optical fibre communication; optical fibre losses; optical modulation; photonic band gap; wavelength division multiplexing; HC-PBGF; NRZ OOK; WDM transmission; bit rate 16 Gbit/s; channel modulation; distance 290 m; low loss region; low-loss hollow core photonic bandgap fiber; total capacity; wavelength 2 mum; Bandwidth; Bit error rate; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber polarization; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC), 2013

Conference_Location

Anaheim, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-0457-0

Type

conf

Filename

6533118