Demonstration of few-mode compatible optical add/drop multiplexer for mode-division multiplexed superchannel

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 641-647

  Chen, Xi ^a   Li, An ^a   Ye, Jia ^a,b   Al Amin, Abdullah ^a   Shieh, William ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b SOUTHWEST JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Coherent optical OFDM; Few mode fiber (FMF); Mode division multiplexing (MDM); Optical add drop multiplexer (OADM)

Indexed keywords

ADD/DROP; FEW-MODE FIBER (FMF); HETERODYNE RECEIVERS; INCIDENT ANGLES; MODE-DIVISION MULTIPLEXING (MDM); MULTIBAND DETECTION; OPTICAL ADD/DROP MULTIPLEXER; OPTICAL OFDM; PROOF OF CONCEPT; SPECTRAL EFFICIENCIES; SUPERCHANNEL; THIN FILM FILTERS;

FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS; MULTIPLEXING EQUIPMENT; ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

MULTIPLEXING;

EID: 84872724684     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2012.2225409     Document Type: Article

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