Partial MIMO-based 10-Mode-Multiplexed Transmission over 81km Weakly-coupled Few-mode Fiber

Authors: Daiki Soma¹, Yuta Wakayama¹, Koji Igarashi^1,2, and Takehiro Tsuritani^1
1KDDI Research, Inc., 2-1-15 Ohara, Fujimino-shi, Saitama, 356-8502 Japan
² Osaka University, 2-1 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka, 565-0871 Japan
Optical Fiber Communication Conference, M2D.4 (2017)

Abstract

A 10-mode-multiplexed 10-Gbaud DP-QPSK WDM signals transmission over 81 km weakly-coupled few-mode fiber has been successfully demonstrated using 2×2 or 4×4 partial MIMO equalizer with reduced receiver DSP complexity.