Core Selective Switch Supporting 15 Cores Per Port Using Bundled Three 5-Core Fibers
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Uchida, Yudai; Ishikawa, Tsubasa; Urashima, Itsuki; Murao, Shoma; Kodama, Takahiro; Sakurai, Yasuki; Sugizaki, Ryuichi; Jinno, Masahiko
- Source
- 2022 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC) Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2022. :01-03 Mar, 2022
- Subject
- Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Photonics and Electrooptics
Optical fibers
Optical switches
Prototypes
Routing
Optical fiber communication
Optical noise
Microoptics
- Language
We prototyped a 15-core 1×8 core selective switch (CSS). The high core count CSS is achieved by bundling three 5-core fibers (5-CFs) and collimating/demultiplexing beams from the input bundled three 5-CFs using a single microlens. © 2022 The Authors