1. Mode-multiplexed 16-QAM transmission over 2400-km large-effective-area depressed-cladding 3-mode fiber
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David W. Peckham, Nicolas Riesen, John van Weerdenburg, Ton Koonen, Roland Ryf, Haoshuo Chen, Rene-Jean Essiambre, Rodrigo Amezcua-Correa, Nicolas K. Fontaine, Robert Lingle, Juan Carlos Alvarado-Zacarias, Chigo Okonkwo, Alan McCurdy, Simon Gross, Roberto Alvarez-Aguirre, Michael J. Withford, van Weerdenburg, John, Ryf, Roland, Alvarez-Aguirre, Roberto, Fontaine, Nicolas K, Essiambre, René-Jean, Chen, Haoshuo, Alvarado-Zacarias, Juan Carlos, Amezcua-Correa, Rodrigo, Gross, Simon, Riesen, Nicolas, Withford, Michael, Peckham, David W, McCurdy, Alan, Lingle, Robert, Koonen, Ton, Okonkwo, Chigo, Optical Fiber Communication Conference, OFC 2018 San Diego, United States 11-15 March 2017, Eindhoven Hendrik Casimir institute, Electro-Optical Communication, High Capacity Optical Transmission, and Optical Access and Indoor Networks
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Space division multiplexing ,Materials science ,business.industry ,Optical communications ,Antenna aperture ,Optical communication ,transmission ,02 engineering and technology ,Coherent communications ,Cladding (fiber optics) ,Multiplexing ,020210 optoelectronics & photonics ,Optics ,0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering ,Modes ,mode fiber ,business ,Quadrature amplitude modulation - Abstract
We demonstrate 2400 km mode-multiplexed 16-QAM transmission over a low DMGD (27.1 ps/km) and low MDL (1.75 dB) 3-mode fiber link. The large effective-area 3-mode fiber is shown to outperform a standard single-mode fiber for distances up to 4500km. Refereed/Peer-reviewed
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- 2018