1. Transmission of 273.6 Tb/s Over 1001 km of 15-Mode Multi-Mode Fiber Using C-Band Only 16-QAM Signals
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Hout, Menno van den, Sciullo, Giammarco Di, Luis, Ruben S., Puttnam, Benjamin J., Fontaine, Nicolas K., Ryf, Roland, Chen, Haoshuo, Mazur, Mikael, Neilson, David T., Sillard, Pierre, Achten, Frank, Mefleh, Ali, Sakaguchi, Jun, Antonelli, Cristian, Okonkwo, Chigo, Furukawa, Hideaki, and Rademacher, Georg
- Abstract
In recent years, space-division multiplexing (SDM) has been proposed and investigated as a technique to increase the per-fiber capacity in order to cope with the ever-increasing demand for capacity in optical transmission networks. Considering the various SDM architectures proposed, multi-mode fibers potentially allow for the highest spatial channel density, but current demonstrations have been limited to mostly short-distance high-mode count or long-distance low-mode count transmission. In this work, we transmit 15 modes × 184 wavelength channels ×
PDM-16-QAM signals, spanning the full C-band, over$24.5 \,\mathrm{GBd}$ of 15-mode multi-mode fiber. The resulting net data rate of$1001 \,\mathrm{km}$ is the highest reported data rate in long-distance multi-mode fiber transmission and results in a record capacity-distance product of 273.9 Pb/s$273.6 \,\mathrm{Tb}/\mathrm{s}$ km for multi-mode transmission. This was achieved by using mode multiplexers with low mode-dependent loss (MDL) and insertion loss, as well as a 15-mode fiber optimized for a low differential mode delay (DMD) transmission regime.$\cdot$ - Published
- 2024
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