Experimental investigation of crosstalk penalties in multicore fiber transmission systems

IEEE Photonics Journal

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Eriksson, Tobias A ^a   Puttnam, Benjamin J ^b   Luís, Ruben S ^b   Karlsson, Magnus ^a   Andrekson, Peter A ^a   Awaji, Yoshinari ^b   Wada, Naoya ^b  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

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

Author keywords

crosstalk; Multicore fiber; optical fiber communication; spatial division multiplexing

Indexed keywords

CROSSTALK; ERROR CORRECTION; FIBERS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; PHASE SHIFT; PHASE SHIFT KEYING; PHASE SHIFTERS; PROFILOMETRY; QUADRATURE PHASE SHIFT KEYING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; MULTICORE FIBER; OPTICAL SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; POLARIZATION- MULTIPLEXED QUADRATURE PHASE-SHIFT KEYING; SIGNAL TO CROSSTALK RATIOS; SINGLE-SPAN TRANSMISSION; SPATIAL DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; TRANSMISSION DISTANCES;

OPTICAL FIBER COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84923886780     PISSN: 19430655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOT.2015.2397275     Document Type: Article

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