Supermodes for optical transmission


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Xia C., Bai N., ÖZDÜR İ. T., Zhou X., Li G.

OPTICS EXPRESS, cilt.19, sa.17, ss.16653-16664, 2011 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 19 Sayı: 17
  • Basım Tarihi: 2011
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1364/oe.19.016653
  • Dergi Adı: OPTICS EXPRESS
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.16653-16664
  • Abdullah Gül Üniversitesi Adresli: Hayır

Özet

In this paper, the concept of supermode is introduced for long-distance optical transmission systems. The supermodes exploit coupling between the cores of a multi-core fiber, in which the core-to-core distance is much shorter than that in conventional multi-core fiber. The use of supermodes leads to a larger mode effective area and higher mode density than the conventional multi-core fiber. Through simulations, we show that the proposed coupled multi-core fiber allows lower modal dependent loss, mode coupling and differential modal group delay than few-mode fibers. These properties suggest that the coupled multi-core fiber could be a good candidate for both spatial division multiplexing and single-mode operation. (C) 2011 Optical Society of America