Terabit WSDM optical access network using multicore fibers and advanced modulation formats

• We proposed a hybrid wavelength-space division multiplexing (WSDM) optical access network architecture utilizing multicore fibers (MCFs) with advanced modulation formats. As a proof of concept, we experimentally demonstrated a WSDM optical access network with duplex transmission using our developed and fabricated multicore (7-core) fibers and fan-in/fan-out device with 58.7km distance. With QPSK-OFDM modulation format, the aggregation downstream (DS) capacity reaches 250 Gb/s using 5 outer cores and it can be further scaled to 1Tb/s using 16QAM-OFDM. For upstream (US) transmission, wavelengths seeded from DS using the inner core are modulated with DMT signal adapted with the channel conditions and then transmitted back to the OLT through the 6th outer core. As an emulation of high speed mobile backhaul (MB) transmission, IQ modulated PDM-QPSK signal with 48Gb/s per wavelength is transmitted in the inner core of MCF and coherently detected in the OLT side. Both DS and US optical signal exhibit acceptable performance with sufficient power budget.

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TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER  -- Elektroteknik och elektronik -- Telekommunikation (hsv//swe)

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY  -- Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering -- Telecommunications (hsv//eng)

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Budget control

Modulation

Multiplexing

Network architecture

Optical communication

Quadrature phase shift keying

Space division multiple access

Acceptable performance

Advanced modulation formats

Channel conditions

Duplex transmission

High speed mobile

Optical access networks

Proof of concept

Space division multiplexing

Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing

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