Space-division multiplexing for optical fiber communications

BJ Puttnam, G Rademacher, RS Luís - Optica, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Research on space-division multiplexing (SDM) came to prominence in early 2010 being
primarily proposed as a means of multiplying the information-carrying capacity of optical …

[PDF][PDF] Advances in femtosecond laser direct writing of fiber Bragg gratings in multicore fibers: technology, sensor and laser applications

A Wolf, A Dostovalov, K Bronnikov, M Skvortsov… - Opto-Electron …, 2022 - researching.cn
In this article, we review recent advances in the technology of writing fiber Bragg gratings
(FBGs) in selected cores of multicore fibers (MCFs) by using femtosecond laser pulses. The …

319 Tb/s Transmission over 3001 km with S, C and L band signals over> 120nm bandwidth in 125 μm wide 4-core fiber

BJ Puttnam, RS Luís, G Rademacher… - 2021 optical fiber …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
319 Tb/s Transmission over 3001 km with S, C and L band signals over >120nm
bandwidth in 125 μm wide 4-cor Page 1 319 Tb/s Transmission over 3001 km with S …

Randomly coupled 19-core multi-core fiber with standard cladding diameter

G Rademacher, M van den Hout, RS Luís… - Optical Fiber …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Randomly Coupled 19-Core Multi-Core Fiber with Standard Cladding Diameter Page 1
Randomly Coupled 19-Core Multi-Core Fiber with Standard Cladding Diameter Georg …

Multi-core fiber technology for SDM: Coupling mechanisms and design

K Saitoh - Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Coupling mechanisms and design issues in multi-core fibers (MCFs) for space division
multiplexing are described in this paper. For uncoupled MCFs, a design procedure that …

A comparative study of few-mode fiber and coupled-core multi-core fiber transmission

G Rademacher, RS Luís, BJ Puttnam, R Ryf… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Few-mode fibers and coupled-core multi-core fibers are attractive transmission media for
space-division multiplexed transmission systems as they enable a high spatial channel …

Challenges in estimating the information capacity of the fiber-optic channel

M Shtaif, C Antonelli, A Mecozzi… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Since its early commercial deployment in the late 1980s, optical fiber has evolved to become
the predominant carrier of the globe's communications. Yet, after accommodating the world's …

50.47-Tbit/s standard cladding coupled 4-core fiber transmission over 9,150 km

D Soma, S Beppu, Y Wakayama… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Since optical submarine cable systems are a part of the global communications
infrastructure, their total capacity must be continuously and dramatically enlarged. Recently …

0.61 Pb/s S, C, and L-band transmission in a 125μm diameter 4-core fiber using a single wideband comb source

BJ Puttnam, RS Luís, G Rademacher… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
We investigate high-throughput, multi-band transmission in a 4-core multi-core fiber (MCF)
with the same 125 μm cladding diameter of standard single-mode fiber (SMF). A single …

Trans-Pacific class transmission over a standard cladding ultralow-loss 4-core fiber

D Soma, S Beppu, Y Wakayama, S Sumita… - Optics …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
The total capacity of optical submarine cable systems as a global communication
infrastructure must be continuously enlarged. Multi-core fibers (MCFs) have been studied as …