Fabrication and Characterization of a Mode-selective 45-Mode Spatial Multiplexer based on Multi-Plane Light Conversion

OFC conference 2018

Section : Fiber networks
Publication date: 2018

Authors: Satyanarayana Bade, Bertrand Denolle, Gauthier Trunet, Nicolas Riguet, Pu Jian, Olivier Pinel, Guillaume Labroille
Cailabs, France

Abstract

The fabrication of 45 spatial mode multiplexers is reported for the first time. The multiplexers based on Multi-Plane Light Conversion show an average 4 dB insertion loss and -28 dB cross-talk across the C band.