Space-division multiplexing for optical fiber communications

BJ Puttnam, G Rademacher, RS Luís - optica, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Research on space-division multiplexing (SDM) came to prominence in early 2010 being
primarily proposed as a means of multiplying the information-carrying capacity of optical …

The role of parallelism in the evolution of optical fiber communication systems

W Klaus, PJ Winzer, K Nakajima - Proceedings of the IEEE, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In order to overcome the capacity limitations of current lightwave systems based on the
single-mode optical fiber, massively parallel transmission in the spatial domain [space …

Few-mode fiber technology, deployments, and systems

P Sillard, K Benyahya, D Soma… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mode-division multiplexing (MDM) using few-mode fibers (FMFs) appears as a promising
technology to increase fiber capacity by a few orders of magnitude and sustain the traffic …

Directly using 8.8-km conventional multi-mode fiber for 6-mode orbital angular momentum multiplexing transmission

A Wang, L Zhu, L Wang, J Ai, S Chen, J Wang - Optics express, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Twisted light carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM), which featuring helical phase front,
has shown its potential applications in diverse areas, especially in optical communications …

Five-LP-Mode IM/DD MDM transmission based on degenerate-mode-selective couplers with side-polishing processing

J Cui, Y Gao, S Huang, J Yu, J Liu, J Jia… - Journal of lightwave …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Weakly-coupled mode division multiplexing (MDM) techniques supporting intensity
modulation and direct detection (IM/DD) have attracted great attention for capacity …

Mode division multiplexing based on ring core optical fibers

J Liu, G Zhu, J Zhang, Y Wen, X Wu… - IEEE Journal of …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The unique modal characteristics of ring core fibers (RCFs) potentially enable the
implementation of mode-division multiplexing (MDM) schemes that can increase optical data …

Orbital-angular-momentum mode-group multiplexed transmission over a graded-index ring-core fiber based on receive diversity and maximal ratio combining

J Zhang, G Zhu, J Liu, X Wu, J Zhu, C Du, W Luo… - Optics express, 2018 - opg.optica.org
An orbital-angular-momentum (OAM) mode-group multiplexing (MGM) scheme using high-
order mode groups (MGs) in a graded-index ring-core fiber (GIRCF) is proposed, in which a …

Light field imaging through a single multimode fiber for OAM-multiplexed data transmission

Q Zhao, PP Yu, YF Liu, ZQ Wang, YM Li… - Applied Physics …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Multimode fibers (MMFs) can support a large number of spatial modes, increasing the
amount of transmitted information, a feature that benefits fields such as endoscopic imaging …

Low-modal-crosstalk orthogonal combine reception for degenerate modes in IM/DD MDM transmission

J Cui, Y Gao, S Huang, J Yu, L Shen, L Zhang… - Optics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Weakly-coupled mode division multiplexing (MDM) techniques supporting intensity
modulation and direct detection (IM/DD) transmission is a promising candidate to enhance …

A degenerate-mode-selective coupler for stable DSP-free MDM transmission

Y Gao, J Cui, D Ge, J Jia, C Du, C Xia, Y Liu… - Journal of lightwave …, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Weakly-coupled mode division multiplexing (MDM) has been intensively investigated in
recent years. In order to be compatible with conventional intensity modulation and direct …