Transmission of 112 Gb/s PM-QPSK signals over up to 635 km of multimode optical fiber

John D Downie; Jason E Hurley; Dmitri V Kuksenkov; Christopher M Lynn; Andrey E Korolev; Vladimir N Nazarov

doi:10.1364/OE.19.00B363

Transmission of 112 Gb/s PM-QPSK signals over up to 635 km of multimode optical fiber

Opt Express. 2011 Dec 12;19(26):B363-9. doi: 10.1364/OE.19.00B363.

Authors

John D Downie¹, Jason E Hurley, Dmitri V Kuksenkov, Christopher M Lynn, Andrey E Korolev, Vladimir N Nazarov

Affiliation

¹ Corning Incorporated, 1 Riverfront Plaza, SP-AR-02-1, Corning, NY 14831, USA. downiejd@corning.com

PMID: 22274044
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.00B363

Abstract

We investigate transmission of 112 Gb/s PM-QPSK signals over 50 μm core diameter OM3 multimode fiber using the center launch approach. We demonstrate successful transmission of 16 DWDM channels over a distance of 635 km for a capacity-distance product of 1016 Tb/s-km. The limiting impairment appears due to mode coupling and multipath interference effects.