Multicore Fiber Transmission Systems

Tutorial - We.A.1.T Advances in Components and Subsystems for Space Division Multiplexing

Roland Ryf Nokia Bell Labs

Space division multiplexing (SDM) is gaining traction particularly in submarine systems, where spatial channel density is paramount. In this tutorial, we will first give a general overview of SDM technologies and fibers, in particular multi-core and multimode fibers. We will then highlight the most promising applications in terrestrial and submarine communication, followed by a review of relevant recent results from field deployed fibers, amplification technologies, and real-time MIMO digital signal processing demonstrations. The final section of the tutorial will address the remaining technical questions that have to be solved to make SDM a commercial reality.

Speaker Boigraphy Dr. Roland Ryf is the director of the Advanced Photonics Research department at Nokia Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ, where he is working on photonic technologies for switching, filtering, and amplification in space-division multiplexed optical communication systems. In particular, he has performed numerous record-breaking long distance transmission experiments in multimode and multicore fibers based on multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) digital signal processing techniques.

We.A.1.1

3.56 Peta-bit/s C+L Band Transmission over a 55-mode Multi-Mode Fiber

Georg Rademacher1, Ruben Luis2, Ben Puttnam2, Nicolas Fontaine3, Mikael Mazur3, Haoshuo Chen3, Roland Ryf3, David Neilson3, Daniel Dahl4, Joel Carpenter4, Pierre Sillard5, Frank Achten6, Marianne Bigot5, Jun Sakaguchi2, Hideaki Furukawa2

1 University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany. 2 NICT, Koganei, Japan. 3 Nokia Bell Labs, Murray Hill, USA. 4 The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. 5 Prysmian, Haisnes, France. 6 Prysmian, Eindhoven, Netherlands

We.A.1.2

Reduction of Modal Dispersion in a long-haul 15-Mode Fiber link by means of Mode Permutation

Giammarco Di Sciullo1, Menno van den Hout2, Georg Rademacher3, Ruben S. Luís4, Benjamin J. Puttnam4, Nicolas K. Fontaine5, Roland Ryf5, Haoshuo Chen5, Mikael Mazur5, David T. Neilson5, Pierre Sillard6, Frank Achten7, Jun Sakaguchi4, Chigo Okonkwo2, Antonio Mecozzi1, Cristian Antonelli1, Hideaki Furukawa4 1 University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy. 2 Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands. 3 University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany. 4 NICT, Tokyo, Japan. 5 Nokia Bell Labs, New Providence, USA. 6 Prysmian Group, Haisnes Cedex, France. 7 Prysmian Group, Eindhoven, Netherlands