Role of wavelength dependent sensitivity in affecting the crosstalk mitigation of homogeneous multicore fiber : an analytical estimation approach

The mitigation of both crosstalk and its wavelength dependent sensitivity for homogeneous multicore fiber (MCF) is theoretically investigated using an analytical evaluation approach. It is found there exists a performance trade-off between the crosstalk mitigation and its wavelength dependent sensit...

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Main Authors: Li, Borui, Fu, Songnian, Tang, Ming, Cheng, Yu, Wei, Huifeng, Tong, Weijun, Shum, P., Liu, Deming
Other Authors: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: 2014
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/104771
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/20271
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Summary:The mitigation of both crosstalk and its wavelength dependent sensitivity for homogeneous multicore fiber (MCF) is theoretically investigated using an analytical evaluation approach. It is found there exists a performance trade-off between the crosstalk mitigation and its wavelength dependent sensitivity suppression. After characterizing the fabricated homogeneous MCFs, we verify that although the increasing core pitch can mitigate the crosstalk, the wavelength dependent sensitivity is drastically degraded from 0.07dB/nm to 0.11dB/nm, which is harmful to the dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) transmission over C + L band using MCF.