Crosstalk in multicore fibers with randomness: Gradual drift vs. short-length variations

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 949-959

  Fini, John M ^a   Zhu, Benyuan ^a   Taunay, Thierry F ^a   Yan, Man F ^a   Abedin, Kazi S ^a  

^a OFS LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROSSTALK; PHASE MATCHING; RANDOM PROCESSES; SPINNING (FIBERS);

CROSSTALK SUPPRESSION; MULTICORE FIBER; MULTIPLICATIVE FACTORS; RANDOM PERTURBATIONS;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

GLASS FIBER;

ARTICLE; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; STATISTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICAL FIBERS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84855912359     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.000949     Document Type: Article

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