Large effective-area few-mode multicore fiber

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 21, 2012, Pages 1941-1944

  Takenaga, Katsuhiro ^a   Sasaki, Yusuke ^a   Guan, Ning ^a   Matsuo, Shoichiro ^a   Kasahara, Motoki ^b   Saitoh, Kunimasa ^b   Koshiba, Masanori ^b  

^a FUJIKURA LTD   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Few mode fiber; multicore fiber; space division multiplexing

Indexed keywords

C-BANDS; DESIGN CONCEPT; FOUR-CORE; LARGE EFFECTIVE AREAS; MULTICORE FIBER; RELATIVE CORE; SINGLE MODE; SPACE DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; STEP-INDEX PROFILE;

PROFILOMETRY; SPACE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS;

FIBERS;

EID: 84867853419     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2012.2219618     Document Type: Article

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