1705-km transmission over coupled-core fibre supporting 6 spatial modes

Roland Ryf, Nicolas K. Fontaine, Bai‐Ou Guan, René-Jean Essiambre, Sebastian Randel, A.H. Gnauck, S. Chandrasekhar, A. Adamiecki, G. Raybon, Burcu Ercan,

2014 · 69 citations · 6 references

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Abstract

We present experimental transmission results for a novel 6-core coupled-core fibre with 125 μm cladding diameter. We transmit combined 2-polarization, 6-SDM and 30-WDM channels over a distance of 1705 km, with a spectral-efficiency-distance product of 30690 bit/s/Hz km.

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