We experimentally demonstrate the impact of inter-core crosstalk in multicore fibers on 56Gbaud PAM-4 signal quality after 2.5-km transmission over a weakly-coupled and uncoupled sevencore fibers, revealing the crosstalk dependence on carrier central wavelength in range of 1540-1560 nm.
@article{arxiv.1812.04709,
title = {Inter-Core Crosstalk in Multicore Fibers: Impact on 56-Gbaud/{\lambda}/Core PAM-4 Transmission},
author = {Aleksejs Udalcovs and Rui Lin and Oskars Ozolins and Lin Gan and Lu Zhang and Xiaodan Pang and Richard Schatz and Anders Djupsjöbacka and Ming Tang and Songnian Fu and Deming Liu and Weijun Tong and Sergei Popov and Gunnar Jacobsen and Jiajia Chen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.04709},
year = {2018}
}
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3 pages, 44th European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC 2018), Rome, Italy, 2018