Randomly Coupled 19-Core Multi-Core Fiber with Standard Cladding Diameter

• DOI: 10.1364/ofc.2023.th4a.4
• Publication Date: 2023-05-18T13:56:51Z
• Authors: Georg Rademacher; Menno van den Hout; Ruben S. Luís; 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
• Keywords: Cladding (metalworking); Plastic-clad silica fiber; All-silica fiber

We developed a randomly-coupled 19-core fiber with standard 125-µm cladding diameter spatial mode dispersion of 10.8ps/km, enabling data rate 1.7 Pb/s, the highest reported amongst optical fibers diameter.