19-core fiber transmission of 19×100×172-Gb/s SDM-WDM-PDM-QPSK signals at 305Tb/s

Jun Sakaguchi, Benjamin J. Puttnam, Werner Klaus, Yoshinari Awaji, Naoya Wada, Atsushi Kanno, Tetsuya Kawanishi, Katsunori Imamura, Harumi Inaba, Kazunori Mukasa,

Optical Fiber Communication Conference · 2012 · 152 citations · 5 references

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Abstract

A novel free-space coupling system combined with a multi-core fiber enables upscaling to a record space-division-multiplexed (SDM) channel number of 19. We achieve 305Tb/s transmission over 10.1 km using 19-SDM, 100-WDM PDM-QPSK signals.

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