Abbreviated Journal Title
Opt. Express
Keywords
LONG-DISTANCE TRANSMISSION; Optics
Abstract
Few-mode fibers (FMFs) are used for the first time to transmit over 5000 km. Ten WDM channels with 50GHz channel spacing at 112 Gb/s per channel using PDM-QPSK are launched into the fundamental mode of the FMFs by splicing single-mode fibers directly to the FMFs. Even though few-mode fibers can support an additional spatial mode LP11 at 1550 nm, the signal remains in the fundamental mode and does not experience mode coupling throughout fiber transmission. After each span the signal is collected by a second single-mode fiber which is also spliced to the FMF. Span loss is compensated by single-mode EDFAs before it is launched to the next FMF span. The lack of mode coupling ensures that the signal does not suffer any impairments that may result from differential mode delay or excess loss. Therefore the FMFs used in this "single-mode operation" have the same bandwidth as single-mode fibers. Experimental results verified that FMFs have the significant advantage of large core size which reduces the nonlinear impairments suffered by the signal. It is shown that FMFs with an effective area of 130 mu m(2), have an optimum launch power 2 dB higher compared to standard single-mode fibers and as a result a 1.1 dB improvement in the Q-factor is obtained after 3000 km.
Journal Title
Optics Express
Volume
18
Issue/Number
20
Publication Date
1-1-2010
Document Type
Article
Language
English
First Page
21342
Last Page
21349
WOS Identifier
ISSN
1094-4087
Recommended Citation
Yaman, Fatih; Bai, Neng; Huang, Y. K.; Huang, M. F.; Zhu, B.; and Li, Guifang, "10 x 112Gb/s PDM-QPSK transmission over 5032 km in few-mode fibers" (2010). Faculty Bibliography 2010s. 964.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/facultybib2010/964
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