6×6 MIMO Transmission over 50+25+10 km Heterogeneous Spans of Few-Mode Fiber with Inline Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifier

1 January 2012

proceedings article
Published by Optica Publishing Group

p. OTu2C.4
https://doi.org/10.1364/ofc.2012.otu2c.4

Abstract

We demonstrate mode-division multiplexed transmission using the LP01 and LP11 modes over three heterogeneous spans of few-mode fiber and investigate the impact of fusion splicing and free-space coupling on mode mixing.

Keywords

FIBER OPTICS COMMUNICATIONS
FIBER OPTICS LINKS AND SUBSYSTEMS

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