Coherent 1200-km 6 × 6 MIMO Mode-Multiplexed Transmission over 3-core Microstructured Fiber

Roland Ryf, Alberto Sierra, René-Jean Essiambre, A.H. Gnauck, Sebastian Randel, M. Esmaeelpour, Shahid Mumtaz, Peter J. Winzer, R. Delbue, Peter J. Pupalaikis,

2011 · 40 citations · 2 references

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Abstract

We experimentally demonstrate transmission of 6 mode-multiplexed 20-Gbd-QPSK signals over 1200 km of three-core microstructured fiber (3C-MSF). An aggregate single-wavelength capacity of 240 Gbit/s is recovered by off-line 6 × 6 coherent multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) digital signal processing.

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