Experimental Investigation of Crosstalk Penalties in Multicore Fiber Transmission Systems

We experimentally study the impact of crosstalk in multicore fibers, using polarization-multiplexed quadrature phase-shift keying signals. Using a 7-core fiber, we perform single-span transmission experiments, where the level of crosstalk to the core under test can be varied. We find the penalty in...

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Main Authors: Tobias A. Eriksson, Benjamin J. Puttnam, Ruben S. Luis, Magnus Karlsson, Peter A. Andrekson, Yoshinari Awaji, Naoya Wada
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2015-01-01
Series:IEEE Photonics Journal
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7031356/