30×30 MIMO Transmission over 15 Spatial Modes

Nicolas K. Fontaine, Roland Ryf, Haoshuo Chen, Amado M. Velázquez-Benítez, Jose Enrique Antonio Lopez, Rodrigo Amezcua Correa, Binbin Guan, Burcu Ercan, Ryan P. Scott, S. J. Ben Yoo,

2015 · 172 citations · 5 references

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We transmit over all 30 spatial and polarization modes of a 22.8-km multimode fiber. 15-mode photonic lanterns enabled low-loss coupling into and out of the fiber and a time-multiplexed coherent receiver facilitates measurement of all 30 signals.

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