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 …

Advances in multicore fiber grating sensors

Z Zhao, Y Dang, M Tang - Photonics, 2022 - mdpi.com
In recent years, multicore fiber (MCF) has attracted increasing interest for sensing
applications, due to its unique fiber structure of multiple parallel cores in a single fiber …

Distributed shape sensing using Brillouin scattering in multi-core fibers

Z Zhao, MA Soto, M Tang, L Thévenaz - Optics express, 2016 - opg.optica.org
A theoretical and experimental study on the response of Brillouin scattering in multi-core
optical fibers (MCF) under different curving conditions is presented. Results demonstrate …

[PDF][PDF] Distributed multicore fiber sensors

Z Zhao, M Tang, C Lu - Opto-Electronic Advances, 2020 - researching.cn
Multicore fiber (MCF) which contains more than one core in a single fiber cladding has
attracted ever increasing attention for application in optical sensing systems owing to its …

Fiber Bragg gratings in heterogeneous multicore fiber for directional bending sensing

H Zhang, Z Wu, PP Shum, R Wang, XQ Dinh… - Journal of …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the fabrication of fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) in a trench-assisted
heterogeneous multicore fiber (MCF). Two obviously different Bragg reflection peaks are …

Discrete changes model of inter-core crosstalk of real homogeneous multi-core fibers

AVT Cartaxo, TMF Alves - Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An analytical discrete changes model of the inter-core crosstalk (ICXT) in real homogeneous
weakly-coupled multi-core fibers (MCF)(cores with similar but different parameters) with …

Heterogeneous all-solid multicore fiber based multipath Michelson interferometer for high temperature sensing

L Duan, P Zhang, M Tang, R Wang, Z Zhao, S Fu… - Optics express, 2016 - opg.optica.org
A compact high temperature sensor utilizing a multipath Michelson interferometer (MI)
structure based on weak coupling multicore fiber (MCF) is proposed and experimentally …

Ultra-high capacity WDM-SDM optical access network with self-homodyne detection downstream and 32QAM-FBMC upstream

Z Feng, L Xu, Q Wu, M Tang, S Fu, W Tong… - Optics …, 2017 - opg.optica.org
Towards 100G beyond large-capacity optical access networks, wavelength division
multiplexing (WDM) techniques incorporating with space division multiplexing (SDM) and …

Spatial-division multiplexed Mach–Zehnder interferometers in heterogeneous multicore fiber for multiparameter measurement

L Gan, R Wang, D Liu, L Duan, S Liu, S Fu… - IEEE Photonics …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose and demonstrate a novel spatial-division multiplexed Mach-Zehnder
interferometer (MZI) structure in heterogeneous multicore fiber (MCF) for simultaneous …

Few-mode multicore fiber enabled integrated Mach-Zehnder interferometers for temperature and strain discrimination

X Zhan, Y Liu, M Tang, L Ma, R Wang, L Duan… - Optics express, 2018 - opg.optica.org
We proposed and experimentally demonstrated paralleled Mach-Zehnder interferometers
(MZIs) in few-mode multicore fiber (FM-MCF) for temperature and strain discriminative …