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Long-Haul Dense Space-Division Multiplexed Transmission Over Low-Crosstalk Heterogeneous 32-Core Transmission Line Using a Partial Recirculating Loop System
Author(s) -
Takayuki Mizuno,
Kohki Shibahara,
Feihong Ye,
Yusuke Sasaki,
Yoshimichi Amma,
Katsuhiro Takenaga,
Yongmin Jung,
Klaus Pulverer,
Hirotaka Ono,
Yoshiteru Abe,
Makoto Yamada,
Kunimasa Saitoh,
Shoichiro Matsuo,
Kazuhiko Aikawa,
Marc Bohn,
David J. Richardson,
Yutaka Miyamoto,
Toshio Morioka
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of lightwave technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.346
H-Index - 200
eISSN - 1558-2213
pISSN - 0733-8724
DOI - 10.1109/jlt.2016.2615070
Subject(s) - communication, networking and broadcast technologies , photonics and electrooptics
In this paper, we present long-haul 32-core dense space-division-multiplexed (DSDM) unidirectional transmission over a single-mode multicore transmission line. We developed a low-crosstalk heterogeneous 32-core fiber with a square lattice arrangement, and a novel partial recirculating loop system. The span crosstalk of the 51.4-km 32-core transmission line was less than -34.5 dB. This allowed the transmission of polarization-division-multiplexed 16 quadrature amplitude modulation (PDM-16QAM) signals through all 32 cores over a long distance exceeding 1000 km. We demonstrate 32-core DSDM 20 wavelength-division-multiplexed PDM-16QAM transmission over 1644.8 km with a high aggregate spectral efficiency of 201.46 b/s/Hz Additionally, we examine the effect of crosstalk on the transmission performance of each core, and show that the Q-penalty has strong correlation with intercore crosstalk.

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