SDM transmission of real-time 10GbE traffic using commercial SFP + transceivers over 0.5km elliptical-core few-mode fiber

Ezra Ip; Giovanni Milione; Ming-Jun Li; Neda Cvijetic; Konstantinos Kanonakis; Jeffery Stone; Gaozhu Peng; Xesús Prieto; Carlos Montero; Vicente Moreno; Jesús Liñares

doi:10.1364/OE.23.017120

SDM transmission of real-time 10GbE traffic using commercial SFP + transceivers over 0.5km elliptical-core few-mode fiber

Opt Express. 2015 Jun 29;23(13):17120-6. doi: 10.1364/OE.23.017120.

Authors

Ezra Ip, Giovanni Milione, Ming-Jun Li, Neda Cvijetic, Konstantinos Kanonakis, Jeffery Stone, Gaozhu Peng, Xesús Prieto, Carlos Montero, Vicente Moreno, Jesús Liñares

PMID: 26191720
DOI: 10.1364/OE.23.017120

Abstract

We experimentally demonstrate the first few-mode space division multiplexed (SDM) transmission of real-time 10Gb/s Ethernet (10GbE) traffic using commercial small form-factor pluggable SFP + transceivers without coherent detection or multiple input multiple output digital signal processing (MIMO-DSP) over 0.5km elliptical-core few-mode-fiber, achieving <-26dB crosstalk between LP(11e) and LP(11o) modes at 1.3μm.