105Pb/s Transmission with 109b/s/Hz Spectral Efficiency using Hybrid Single- and Few-Mode Cores

• DOI: 10.1364/fio.2012.fw6c.3
• Publication Date: 2013-04-05T21:40:24Z
• Authors: Dayou Qian; Ezra Ip; Ming-Fang Huang; Ming-Jun Li; Arthur Dogariu; Shaoliang Zhang; Yin Shao; Yue-Kai Huang; Yequn Zhang; Xilin Cheng; Yue Tian; Philip Nan Ji; Adam Collier; Ying Geng; Jesús Liñares; Carlos Montero; Vicente Moreno; Xesús Prieto; Ting Wang
• Keywords: Spectral Efficiency; Mode (computer interface)

We demonstrated 1.05-Pb/s transmission over 3km of multicore fiber with spectral efficiency 109b/s/Hz, using twelve single-mode cores carrying DP-32QAM-OFDM signals and two few-mode DP-QPSK in their LP01 LP11 modes.