End-to-end multicore multimode fiber optic link operating up to 120 Gb/s

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 886-892

  Lee, Benjamin G ^a   Kuchta, Daniel M ^a   Doany, Fuad E ^a   Schow, Clint L ^a   Pepeljugoski, Petar ^a   Baks, Christian ^a   Taunay, Thierry F ^b   Zhu, Benyuan ^b   Yan, Man F ^b   Oulundsen, George E ^c   Vaidya, Durgesh S ^c   Luo, Wenlin ^d   Li, Neinyi ^d  

^a IBM RESEARCH   (United States)

^b OFS LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c OFS   (United States)

^d Emcore Digital Product Division   (United States)

Author keywords

Integrated optoelectronics; optical fiber communication; optical interconnections; optical receivers; optical transmitters

Indexed keywords

2D-ARRAYS; BER PERFORMANCE; FLIP CHIP; GRADED INDEX; HEXAGONAL PATTERN; MULTI CORE; MULTI-CHANNEL; MULTI-MODE CORE; MULTI-MODE FIBER OPTIC LINKS; MULTICORE FIBER; OPTICAL CROSS-TALK; OPTICAL FIBER COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL TRANSMITTERS; TIMING MARGIN; TRANSMITTER AND RECEIVER; VERTICAL-CAVITY SURFACE EMITTING LASER; WIREBONDING;

INTEGRATED OPTOELECTRONICS; MULTIMODE FIBERS; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; OPTICAL RECEIVERS; SURFACE EMITTING LASERS;

TRANSMITTERS;

EID: 84863180907     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2012.2183853     Document Type: Article

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