10 Spatial Mode Transmission Using Low Differential Mode Delay 6-Lp Fiber Using All-Fiber Photonic Lanterns

Abstract

To unlock the cost benefits of space division multiplexing transmission systems, higher spatial multiplicity is required. Here, we investigate a potential route to increasing the number of spatial mode channels within a single core few-mode fiber. Key for longer transmission distances and low computational complexity is the fabrication of fibers with low differential mode group delays. As such in this work, we combine wavelength and mode-division multiplexed transmission over a 4.45 km low-DMGD 6-LP-mode fiber by employing low-loss all-fiber 10-port photonic lanterns to couple light in and out of the fiber. Hence, a minimum DMGD of 0.2 ns (maximum 0.357 ns) is measured after 4.45 km. Instrumental to the multi-mode transmission system is the employed time-domain- SDM receiver, allowing 10 spatial mode channels (over both polarizations) to be captured using only 3 coherent receivers and real-time oscilloscopes in comparison with 10 for conventional methods. The spatial channels were unraveled using 20 × 20 multiple-input multiple-output digital signal processing. By employing a novel round-robin encoding technique, stable performance over a long measurement period demonstrates the feasibility of 10x increase in single-core multi-mode transmission.

Publication Date

1-1-2015

Publication Title

Optics Express

Volume

23

Issue

19

Number of Pages

24759-24769

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.23.024759

Socpus ID

84943629179 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84943629179

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