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 …

Space-division multiplexing: the next frontier in optical communication

G Li, N Bai, N Zhao, C Xia - Advances in optics and photonics, 2014 - opg.optica.org
Space-division multiplexing (SDM) uses multiplicity of space channels to increase capacity
for optical communication. It is applicable for optical communication in both free space and …

Space-division multiplexing in optical fibres

DJ Richardson, JM Fini, LE Nelson - Nature photonics, 2013 - nature.com
Optical communication technology has been advancing rapidly for several decades,
supporting our increasingly information-driven society and economy. Much of this progress …

Unscrambling light—automatically undoing strong mixing between modes

A Annoni, E Guglielmi, M Carminati, G Ferrari… - Light: Science & …, 2017 - nature.com
Propagation of light beams through scattering or multimode systems may lead to the
randomization of the spatial coherence of the light. Although information is not lost, its …

73.7 Tb/s (96 x 3 x 256-Gb/s) mode-division-multiplexed DP-16QAM transmission with inline MM-EDFA

V Sleiffer, Y Jung, V Veljanovski, RGH Van Uden… - Optics …, 2012 - opg.optica.org
Transmission of a 73.7 Tb/s (96x3x256-Gb/s) DP-16QAM mode-division-multiplexed signal
over 119km of few-mode fiber transmission line incorporating an inline multi mode EDFA …

146λ× 6× 19-Gbaud wavelength-and mode-division multiplexed transmission over 10× 50-km spans of few-mode fiber with a gain-equalized few-mode EDFA

E Ip, MJ Li, K Bennett, YK Huang… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We demonstrate wavelength-and mode-division multiplexed transmission over a fiber re-
circulating loop comprising 50-km of low-DMGD few-mode fiber, and an optimized few-mode …

[PDF][PDF] Mode coupling and its impact on spatially multiplexed systems

KP Ho, JM Kahn, IP Kaminow, T Li… - Optical Fiber …, 2013 - ee.stanford.edu
Recent developments in spatially multiplexed optical communication systems demand a
deeper understanding of mode coupling effects in fibers. Spatial multiplexing is being …

[HTML][HTML] Orbital angular momentum communications based on standard multi-mode fiber

J Wang, S Chen, J Liu - Apl Photonics, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Orbital angular momentum (OAM) modes, having unique properties of a helical phase
structure and doughnut intensity profile, have been widely studied in fiber-optic …

Optical networking beyond WDM

PJ Winzer - IEEE Photonics Journal, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) has been the workhorse of data networks,
accommodating exponential traffic growth for two decades. Recently, however, progress in …

Effect of mode coupling on signal processing complexity in mode-division multiplexing

SÖ Arık, D Askarov, JM Kahn - Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2013 - opg.optica.org
Mode-division multiplexing systems employ multi-input multi-output (MIMO) equalization to
compensate for chromatic dispersion (CD), modal dispersion (MD) and modal crosstalk. The …