Randomly Coupled 19-Core Multi-Core Fiber with Standard Cladding Diameter
Georg Rademacher, Menno van den Hout, Ruben S. Lúıs, Benjamin J. Puttnam, Giammarco Di Sciullo, Tetsuya Hayashi, Ayumi Inoue, Takuji Nagashima, Simon Gross, Andrew Ross‐Adams, Michael J. Withford, Jun Sakaguchi, Cristian Antonelli, Chigo Okonkwo, Hideaki Furukawa
Abstract
We developed a randomly-coupled 19-core fiber with standard 125-µm cladding diameter with spatial mode dispersion of 10.8ps/km, enabling a data rate of 1.7 Pb/s, the highest reported amongst optical fibers with standard cladding diameter.
Topics & Concepts
Cladding (metalworking)Materials scienceCore (optical fiber)Hard-clad silica optical fiberPlastic-clad silica fiberAll-silica fiberOptical fiberOpticsSingle-mode optical fiberComposite materialGraded-index fiberFiberFiber optic sensorPhysicsOptical Network TechnologiesPhotonic Crystal and Fiber OpticsAdvanced Fiber Optic Sensors