Space division multiplexed transmission of 109-Tb/s data signals using homogeneous seven-core fiber

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 658-665

  Sakaguchi, Jun ^a   Awaji, Yoshinari ^a   Wada, Naoya ^a   Kanno, Atsushi ^a   Kawanishi, Tetsuya ^a   Hayashi, Tetsuya ^b   Taru, Toshiki ^b   Kobayashi, Tetsuya ^c   Watanabe, Masayuki ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD   (Japan)

^c OPTOQUEST CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fiber optics; Quadrature phase shift keying; Space division multiplexing; Wavelength division multiplexing

Indexed keywords

1550 NM; DATA SIGNALS; MULTI CORE; SPACE DIVISION; SPACE DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; SPECTRAL EFFICIENCIES;

CROSSTALK; FIBER OPTICS; MULTIPLEXING; QUADRATURE PHASE SHIFT KEYING; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

SPACE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS;

EID: 84863010986     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2011.2180509     Document Type: Article

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