20 × 960-Gb/s Space-division-multiplexed 32QAM transmission over 60 km few-mode fiber

Optics Express

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 749-755

  Sleiffer, V A J M ^a   Leoni, P ^b   Jung, Y ^c   Surof, J ^d   Kuschnerov, M ^e   Veljanovski, V ^e   Alam, S U ^c   Richardson, D J ^c   Gruner Nielsen L ^f   Sun, Y ^g   Corbett, B ^h   Winfield, R ^h   Calabro S ^e   De Waardt, H ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b BUNDESWEHR UNIVERSITY MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^e Coriant R and D GmbH ^*  (Germany)

^f OFS   (Denmark)

^g OFS   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CONSTANTS; OPTICS;

ERROR FREE TRANSMISSION; FEW-MODE FIBERS; MODULATED CHANNELS; SOFT DECISION; SPECTRAL EFFICIENCIES;

MULTIPLEXING;

EID: 84892660245     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.000749     Document Type: Article

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