305 Tb/s space division multiplexed transmission using homogeneous 19-core fiber

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 554-562

  Sakaguchi, Jun ^a   Puttnam, Benjamin J ^a   Klaus, Werner ^a   Awaji, Yoshinari ^a   Wada, Naoya ^a   Kanno, Atsushi ^c   Kawanishi, Tetsuya ^c   Imamura, Katsunori ^b   Inaba, Harumi ^b   Mukasa, Kazunori ^d   Sugizaki, Ryuichi ^b   Kobayashi, Tetsuya ^d   Watanabe, Masayuki ^d  

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

^b FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO LTD   (Japan)

^c OFS LABORATORIES   (United States)

^d OPTOQUEST CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coherent communications; fiber optics; multicore fiber (MCF); quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK); space division multiplexing (SDM); wavelength division multiplexing (WDM)

Indexed keywords

100 GHZ; CHANNEL NUMBER; COHERENT COMMUNICATION; DATA SIGNALS; FREE SPACE OPTICS; LOW INSERTION LOSS; MULTICORE FIBER; SPACE DIVISION; SPACE DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; SPECTRAL EFFICIENCIES;

CROSSTALK; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; FIBER OPTICS; QUADRATURE PHASE SHIFT KEYING; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

SPACE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS;

EID: 84872134111     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2012.2217373     Document Type: Article

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