Space-Time Coding-Assisted Transmission for Mitigation of MDL Impact on Mode-Division Multiplexed Signals

Kohki Shibahara, Takayuki Mizuno, H. Takara, Hiroto Kawakami, D. Lee, Y. Miyamoto, Shoichiro Matsuo, Kunimasa Saitoh, Makoto Yamada

Optical Fiber Communication Conference · 2016 · 14 citations · 8 references

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Abstract

A method is described for applying space-time coding implemented by Hadamard transform to SDM transmission. Experiments demonstrated that the method substantially improves mode dependent loss tolerance and enables transmission reach to be enhanced by 20%.

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