TY - JOUR
T1 - High Capacity Transmission in a Coupled-Core Three-Core Multi-Core Fiber
AU - Rademacher, Georg
AU - Luis, Ruben S.
AU - Puttnam, Benjamin J.
AU - Ryf, Roland
AU - van der Heide, Sjoerd
AU - Eriksson, Tobias A.
AU - Fontaine, Nicolas K.
AU - Chen, Haoshuo
AU - Essiambre, Rene Jean
AU - Awaji, Yoshinari
AU - Furukawa, Hideaki
AU - Wada, Naoya
PY - 2021/2/1
Y1 - 2021/2/1
N2 - High-capacity, long-haul transmission over a coupled-core three-core multi-core fiber is investigated in a recirculating loop experiment. We report key system characteristics, such as the optimum launch power as well as the wavelength dependence and distance-evolution of mode-dependent loss and the impulse response time spread. We further performed two high data-rate, long-haul transmission demonstrations with more than 75 nm optical bandwidth in C- and L-bands over distances up to 4800 km. The reported data-rate of 172 Tb/s over 2040 km is the highest demonstrated in any multi-span transmission system employing optical fibers with standard cladding diameter of 125 micro-meter to date. Additionally, transmission of 81 Tb/s over 4800 km distance demonstrates the potential of using coupled-core multi-core fibers in combination with wideband optical signals over long-haul distances.
AB - High-capacity, long-haul transmission over a coupled-core three-core multi-core fiber is investigated in a recirculating loop experiment. We report key system characteristics, such as the optimum launch power as well as the wavelength dependence and distance-evolution of mode-dependent loss and the impulse response time spread. We further performed two high data-rate, long-haul transmission demonstrations with more than 75 nm optical bandwidth in C- and L-bands over distances up to 4800 km. The reported data-rate of 172 Tb/s over 2040 km is the highest demonstrated in any multi-span transmission system employing optical fibers with standard cladding diameter of 125 micro-meter to date. Additionally, transmission of 81 Tb/s over 4800 km distance demonstrates the potential of using coupled-core multi-core fibers in combination with wideband optical signals over long-haul distances.
KW - multi-core fibers
KW - Space-division multiplexing (SDM)
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85099569128&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/JLT.2020.3013966
DO - 10.1109/JLT.2020.3013966
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85099569128
SN - 0733-8724
VL - 39
SP - 757
EP - 762
JO - Journal of Lightwave Technology
JF - Journal of Lightwave Technology
IS - 3
M1 - 9157991
ER -