Experimental Investigation of Crosstalk Penalties in Multicore Fiber Transmission Systems
Journal article, 2015

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 the required optical signal-to-noise ratio (OSNR), compared to a system with no crosstalk, for different signal-to-crosstalk ratios and at different pre-forward-error-correction target bit-error rates (BERs). We show that, for a 1-dB penalty, a 15.7-dB signal-to-crosstalk ratio can be tolerated at BER = 1 x 10(-3). We also perform recirculating loop experiments with varying amount of crosstalk per span to find the impact on the achievable transmission distance.

Multicore fiber

crosstalk

spatial division multiplexing

optical fiber communication

Author

Tobias Eriksson

Chalmers, Microtechnology and Nanoscience (MC2), Photonics

Benjamin Puttnam

Japan National Institute of Information and Communications Technology

R. S. Luis

Japan National Institute of Information and Communications Technology

Magnus Karlsson

Chalmers, Microtechnology and Nanoscience (MC2), Photonics

Peter Andrekson

Chalmers, Microtechnology and Nanoscience (MC2), Photonics

Y. Awaji

Japan National Institute of Information and Communications Technology

N. Wada

Japan National Institute of Information and Communications Technology

IEEE Photonics Journal

19430655 (eISSN)

Vol. 7 1 7031356

Subject Categories

Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering

DOI

10.1109/jphot.2015.2397275

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Created

10/7/2017