12 November 2020 Design of few-mode optical fibers with air-hole structure for MIMO-less data transmission
Yijin Chen, Jianping Wang, Hongyao Chen, Changling Liu, Weijun Song, Zizheng Li, Mei Liu
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Abstract

Rapidly space-division multiplexing (SDM) techniques have drawn attention because the traditional available physical dimensions to orthogonally multiplex data have been almost exhausted. Few-mode fiber becomes a viable option to realize a high-density SDM system. Thus, we propose an air-hole assisted elliptical ring fiber. Four air-holes are introduced surrounding the elliptical ring fiber, and one air-hole is in the core, which can prevent higher-order modes to be cutoff and improve the degeneracy between modes to achieve multiple-input multiple-output-free data transmission. This fiber can support 14 modes in a wide wavelength range from 1.52 to 1.58  μm (h  =  5.0  μm, dx  =  0.3  μm, and dy  =  1.1  μm), and the effective index difference of its adjacent modes is larger than 1.25  ×  10  −  4. The fiber we designed would be a strong candidate for SDM to improve optical transmission capacity.

© 2020 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) 0091-3286/2020/$28.00 © 2020 SPIE
Yijin Chen, Jianping Wang, Hongyao Chen, Changling Liu, Weijun Song, Zizheng Li, and Mei Liu "Design of few-mode optical fibers with air-hole structure for MIMO-less data transmission," Optical Engineering 59(11), 116103 (12 November 2020). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.59.11.116103
Received: 29 May 2020; Accepted: 12 October 2020; Published: 12 November 2020
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KEYWORDS
Optical fibers

Optical design

Extremely high frequency

Data transmission

Optical engineering

Polarization

Refractive index

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