6×28-Gbaud Few-Mode Recirculating Loop Transmission with Gain-Equalized Inline Few-Mode Fiber Amplifier

• DOI: 10.1364/ofc.2013.ow4f.3
• Publication Date: 2013-04-04T22:08:51Z
• Authors: Ezra Ip; Ming-Jun Li; Kevin Bennett; Scott Bickham; Yue-Kai Huang; Akihiro Tanaka; Eduardo Mateo; Junqiang Hu; Ting Wang; Andrey Korolev; Konstantin Koreshkov; William Wood; Jesús Liñares; Carlos Montero; Vicente Moreno; Xesús Prieto; Yutaka Yano; Yoshiaki Aono; Tsutomo Tajima; Kiyoshi Fukuchi
• Keywords: 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering; 02 engineering and technology

Using a transmission fiber with a zero differential modal dispersion wavelength and a gain-equalized few-mode EDFA, we demonstrate mode-multiplexed transmission over a fiber recirculating loop with all few-mode components.