Launch device using endlessly single-mode PCF for ultra-wideband WDM transmission in graded-index multi-mode fiber

doi:10.1364/OE.20.024903

Launch device using endlessly single-mode PCF for ultra-wideband WDM transmission in graded-index multi-mode fiber

Lin Ma, Nobutomo Hanzawa, Kyozo Tsujikawa, and Yuji Azuma »View Author Affiliations

Optics Express, Vol. 20, Issue 22, pp. 24903-24909 (2012)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.20.024903

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We demonstrated ultra-wideband wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) transmission from 850 to 1550 nm in graded-index multi-mode fiber (GI-MMF) using endlessly single-mode photonic crystal fiber (ESM-PCF) as a launch device. Effective single-mode guidance is obtained in multi-mode fiber at all wavelengths by splicing cm-order length ESM-PCF to the transmission fiber. We achieved 3 × 10 Gbit/s WDM transmission in a 1 km-long 50-μm-core GI-MMF. We also realized penalty free 10 Gbit/s data transmission at a wavelength of 850 nm by optimizing the PCF structure. This method has the potential to achieve greater total transmission capacity for MMF systems by the addition of more wavelength channels.

OCIS Codes
(060.2330) Fiber optics and optical communications : Fiber optics communications
(060.4230) Fiber optics and optical communications : Multiplexing
(060.5295) Fiber optics and optical communications : Photonic crystal fibers

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Fiber Optics and Optical Communications

History
Original Manuscript: August 7, 2012
Revised Manuscript: September 20, 2012
Manuscript Accepted: September 25, 2012
Published: October 16, 2012

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Lin Ma, Nobutomo Hanzawa, Kyozo Tsujikawa, and Yuji Azuma, "Launch device using endlessly single-mode PCF for ultra-wideband WDM transmission in graded-index multi-mode fiber," Opt. Express 20, 24903-24909 (2012)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-20-22-24903

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