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 …

Petabit-per-second data transmission using a chip-scale microcomb ring resonator source

AA Jørgensen, D Kong, MR Henriksen, F Klejs, Z Ye… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Optical fibre communication is the backbone of the internet. As essential core technologies
are approaching their limits of size, speed and energy-efficiency, there is a need for new …

1-Pbps orbital angular momentum fibre-optic transmission

J Liu, J Zhang, J Liu, Z Lin, Z Li, Z Lin, J Zhang… - Light: Science & …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Space-division multiplexing (SDM), as a main candidate for future ultra-high
capacity fibre-optic communications, needs to address limitations to its scalability imposed …

Peta-bit-per-second optical communications system using a standard cladding diameter 15-mode fiber

G Rademacher, BJ Puttnam, RS Luís… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Data rates in optical fiber networks have increased exponentially over the past decades and
core-networks are expected to operate in the peta-bit-per-second regime by 2030. As …

Scaling capacity of fiber-optic transmission systems via silicon photonics

W Shi, Y Tian, A Gervais - Nanophotonics, 2020 - degruyter.com
The tremendous growth of data traffic has spurred a rapid evolution of optical
communications for a higher data transmission capacity. Next-generation fiber-optic …

Chip-based optical frequency combs for high-capacity optical communications

H Hu, LK Oxenløwe - Nanophotonics, 2021 - degruyter.com
Current fibre optic communication systems owe their high-capacity abilities to the
wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) technique, which combines data channels running …

Photonic lanterns, 3-D waveguides, multiplane light conversion, and other components that enable space-division multiplexing

NK Fontaine, J Carpenter, S Gross… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Four-mode multiplexing and manipulation technologies are reviewed in the context of space-
division multiplexing (SDM) optical communication systems. These are multiplane light …

Weakly coupled multicore fiber technology, deployment, and systems

T Matsui, PL Pondillo, K Nakajima - Proceedings of the IEEE, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Space-division multiplexing (SDM) technology is a promising candidate to achieve massive
parallelism in optical fiber cables and overcome the capacity limitation of the conventional …

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 …