Experimental results from copropagating analog channels of same wavelength over 600-meter-long standard step index multimode fiber

Optical Engineering

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2008, Pages

  Murshid, Syed H ^a   Chakravarty, Abhijit ^a  

^a Optronics Laboratory ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Bandwidth enhancement; Fiber optics; Helical propagation; Optical communications; Optical multiplexing

Indexed keywords

FIBER OPTICS; FIBERS; MULTIMODE FIBERS; MULTIPLEXING; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FIBERS;

BANDWIDTH ENHANCEMENT; CONCENTRIC CIRCLES; DATA-CARRYING CAPACITY; HELICAL PROPAGATION; OPTICAL MULTIPLEXING; RADIAL DIRECTION; SINUSOIDAL MODULATION; SPATIALLY MODULATED;

OPTICAL FIBER COMMUNICATION;

EID: 67649569021     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3001790     Document Type: Article

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