Breakthroughs in photonics 2012: Space-division multiplexing in multimode and multicore fibers for high-capacity optical communication

IEEE Photonics Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Essiambre, R J ^a   Ryf, R ^a   Fontaine, N K ^a   Randel, S ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

information theory; mode coupling; multicore fibers (MCFs); Multimode fibers (MMFs); optical amplifiers; optical couplers; space division multiplexing (SDM); waveguides

Indexed keywords

HIGH-CAPACITY; MODE COUPLING; MULTICORE FIBER; MULTIMODES; OPTICAL COUPLER; SPACE-DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; SPATIAL MODES; TRANSMISSION EXPERIMENTS;

FIBERS; INFORMATION THEORY; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; MULTIMODE FIBERS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; WAVEGUIDES;

SPACE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS;

EID: 84877765214     PISSN: 19430655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOT.2013.2253091     Document Type: Article

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