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 …

Roadmap of optical communications

E Agrell, M Karlsson, AR Chraplyvy… - Journal of …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Lightwave communications is a necessity for the information age. Optical links provide
enormous bandwidth, and the optical fiber is the only medium that can meet the modern …

Laguerre-Gaussian mode sorter

NK Fontaine, R Ryf, H Chen, DT Neilson, K Kim… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Exploiting a particular wave property for a particular application necessitates components
capable of discriminating in the basis of that property. While spectral or polarisation …

Survey and evaluation of space division multiplexing: From technologies to optical networks

GM Saridis, D Alexandropoulos… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Single-mode fiber's physical capacity boundaries will soon be reached; hence, alternative
solutions are much needed to overcome the multiplying and remarkably large bandwidth …

Survey of photonic switching architectures and technologies in support of spatially and spectrally flexible optical networking

DM Marom, PD Colbourne, A D'errico… - Journal of Optical …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As traffic volumes carried by optical networks continue to grow by tens of percent year over
year, we are rapidly approaching the capacity limit of the conventional communication band …

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 …

Perspective on mode-division multiplexing

Y Su, Y He, H Chen, X Li, G Li - Applied Physics Letters, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
We review the current status of mode-division multiplexing (MDM) techniques in fibers and
on chips. Three system applications are introduced, including quasi-single mode …

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 …

1.53 peta-bit/s c-band transmission in a 55-mode fiber

G Rademacher, RS Luís, BJ Puttnam… - 2022 European …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We transmit 55 SDM x 184 WDM x 24.5 GBaud PM-16-QAM signals for a total data rate of
1.53 peta-bit/s over 25.9 km 55-mode fiber. This was enabled by low-loss, high mode …

Dense space-division multiplexed transmission systems using multi-core and multi-mode fiber

T Mizuno, H Takara, A Sano… - Journal of lightwave …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we describe recent progress in space-division multiplexed (SDM)
transmission, and our proposal and demonstration of dense space-division multiplexing …