2.15 Pb/s transmission using a 22 core homogeneous single-mode multi-core fiber and wideband optical comb

Benjamin J. Puttnam, Werner Klaus, Jun Sakaguchi, José Manuel Delgado Mendinueta, Yoshinari Awaji, Naoya Wada, Yoshiaki Tamura, Tetsuya Hayashi, Masaaki Hirano, John R. Marciante

2015 · 304 citations · 11 references

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Abstract

We use a wideband optical comb source with 10THz bandwidth for 2.15 Pb/s transmission over 31km of a new, homogeneous 22-core single-mode multi-core fiber using 399 × 25GHz spaced, 6.468 Tb/s spatial-super-channels comprising 24.5GBaud PDM-64QAM modulation in each core.

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