Ultra-high capacity transmission with few-mode silica and hollow-core photonic bandgap fibers
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Sleiffer, V.A.J.M.; Leoni, P.; Jung, Y.; Chen, H.; Kuschnerov, M.; Alam, S.U.; Petrovich, M.; Poletti, F.; Wheeler, N.V.; Baddela, N.; Hayes, J.; Numkam Fokoua, E.; Richardson, D.J.; Gruner-Nielsen, L.; Sun, Y.; de Waardt, H.
- Source
- OFC 2014 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2014. :1-3 Mar, 2014
- Subject
- Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Photonics and Electrooptics
Optical fiber polarization
Wavelength division multiplexing
Bit error rate
Optical fiber networks
Optical fiber amplifiers
- Language
We review the capacity records achieved using mode-division multiplexing in few-mode fiber and hollow-core photonic bandgap fibers. Currently the MDM-capacity record for both fiber types is 73.7 Tb/s, whereas per wavelength 960 Gb/s is achieved.