Abbreviated Journal Title
Opt. Express
Keywords
FIBERS; Optics
Abstract
In this paper, the concept of supermode is introduced for long-distance optical transmission systems. The supermodes exploit coupling between the cores of a multi-core fiber, in which the core-to-core distance is much shorter than that in conventional multi-core fiber. The use of supermodes leads to a larger mode effective area and higher mode density than the conventional multi-core fiber. Through simulations, we show that the proposed coupled multi-core fiber allows lower modal dependent loss, mode coupling and differential modal group delay than few-mode fibers. These properties suggest that the coupled multi-core fiber could be a good candidate for both spatial division multiplexing and single-mode operation.
Journal Title
Optics Express
Volume
19
Issue/Number
17
Publication Date
1-1-2011
Document Type
Article
Language
English
First Page
16653
Last Page
16664
WOS Identifier
ISSN
1094-4087
Recommended Citation
Xia, Cen; Bai, Neng; Ozdur, Ibrahim; Zhou, Xiang; and Li, Guifang, "Supermodes for optical transmission" (2011). Faculty Bibliography 2010s. 2113.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/facultybib2010/2113
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