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 …

Physics of highly multimode nonlinear optical systems

LG Wright, FO Wu, DN Christodoulides, FW Wise - Nature Physics, 2022 - nature.com
Linear multimode optical systems have enabled clean experimental observations and the
applications of numerous phenomena that continually extend the boundaries of wave …

Space-division multiplexing: the next frontier in optical communication

G Li, N Bai, N Zhao, C **a - Advances in optics and photonics, 2014 - opg.optica.org
Space-division multiplexing (SDM) uses multiplicity of space channels to increase capacity
for optical communication. It is applicable for optical communication in both free space and …

Communicating using spatial mode multiplexing: Potentials, challenges, and perspectives

A Trichili, KH Park, M Zghal, BS Ooi… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Time, polarization, and wavelength multiplexing schemes have been used to satisfy the
growing need of transmission capacity. Using space as a new dimension for communication …

Self-organized instability in graded-index multimode fibres

LG Wright, Z Liu, DA Nolan, MJ Li… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Multimode fibres (MMFs) are attracting interest in the study of spatiotemporal dynamics as
well as in the context of ultrafast fibre sources, imaging and telecommunications. This …

Nonlinear propagation in multimode and multicore fibers: generalization of the Manakov equations

S Mumtaz, RJ Essiambre… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We investigate theoretically nonlinear transmission in space-division multiplexed (SDM)
systems using multimode fibers exhibiting rapidly varying birefringence. A primary objective …

Multimode nonlinear fiber optics: massively parallel numerical solver, tutorial, and outlook

LG Wright, ZM Ziegler, PM Lushnikov… - IEEE Journal of …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Building on the scientific understanding and technological infrastructure of single-mode
fibers, multimode fibers are being explored as a means of adding new degrees of freedom to …

Randomly-coupled multi-core fiber technology

T Hayashi, T Sakamoto, Y Yamada, R Ryf… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Randomly-coupled multi-core fiber (MCF) technology has come to attract lots of attention
because of its strong applicability to long-haul transmission systems. Compared with weakly …

Nonlinear multimode photonics: nonlinear optics with many degrees of freedom

LG Wright, WH Renninger, DN Christodoulides… - Optica, 2022 - opg.optica.org
The overall goal of photonics research is to understand and control light in new and richer
ways to facilitate new and richer applications. Many major developments to this end have …

Spatiotemporal dynamics of multimode optical solitons

LG Wright, WH Renninger, DN Christodoulides… - Optics express, 2015 - opg.optica.org
As optical fiber communications and fiber lasers approach fundamental limits there is
considerable interest in multimode fibers. In nonlinear science, they represent an exciting …