Characterization of Fiber Nonlinearity and Analysis of Its Impact on Link Capacity Limit of Two-Mode Fibers

Xi Chen; An Li; Guanjun Gao; Abdullah Al Amin; William Shieh

doi:10.1109/JPHOT.2012.2190501

IEEE Photonics Journal (Jan 2012)

Characterization of Fiber Nonlinearity and Analysis of Its Impact on Link Capacity Limit of Two-Mode Fibers

Xi Chen,
An Li,
Guanjun Gao,
Abdullah Al Amin,
William Shieh

Affiliations

Xi Chen: Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Australia
An Li: Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Guanjun Gao: Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Abdullah Al Amin: Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Australia
William Shieh: Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Australia

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/JPHOT.2012.2190501
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 4, no. 2
pp. 455 – 460

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In this paper, we first measure fiber nonlinear Kerr coefficient of a two-mode fiber (TMF) by characterizing the four-wave mixing (FWM) components. Based on the measured nonlinear coefficient, we present an analysis of the link capacity for a two-mode fiber. It is shown that despite strong spatial overlapping of the three modes, the overall capacity approaches three times of that of a single-mode fiber.

Published in IEEE Photonics Journal

ISSN: 1943-0655 (Online)
Publisher: IEEE
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Technology: Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General): Applied optics. Photonics; Science: Physics: Optics. Light
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