SDM transmission of real-time 10GbE traffic using commercial SFP + transceivers over 05km elliptical-core few-mode fiber

• DOI: 10.1364/oe.23.017120
• Publication Date: 2015-06-22T13:41:54Z
• Authors: Ezra Ip; Giovanni Milione; Ming-Jun Li; Neda Cvijetic; Konstantinos Kano...; Jeffery Stone; Gaozhu Peng; Xesús Prieto; Carlos Montero; Vicente Moreno; Jesús Liñares
• Keywords: Transceiver

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 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.