Behavior of inter-core crosstalk as a noise and its effect on Q-factor in multi-core fiber

IEICE Transactions on Communications

Volumn E97-B, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 936-944

  Hayashi, Tetsuya ^a   Sasaki, Takashi ^a   Sasaoka, Eisuke ^a  

^a SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Crosstalk; Multi core fiber (MCF); Optical fibers; Space division multiplexing

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; FIBERS; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); MULTIPLEXING; OPTICAL FIBERS; Q FACTOR MEASUREMENT; QUADRATURE AMPLITUDE MODULATION;

ADDITIVE WHITE GAUSSIAN NOISE; MULTI CORE; SPACE DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; STATIC COUPLINGS; STATISTICAL MEAN; STOCHASTIC BEHAVIOR; THEORETICAL MODELING; TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS;

CROSSTALK;

EID: 84899857857     PISSN: 09168516     EISSN: 17451345     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1587/transcom.E97.B.936     Document Type: Article

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