Mode- and wavelength-multiplexed transmission with crosstalk mitigation using a single amplified spontaneous emission source

Yetian Huang; Haoshuo Chen; Hanzi Huang; Zhengxuan Li; Nicolas K. Fontaine; Roland Ryf; Juan Carlos Alvarado; Rodrigo Amezcua-Correa; John van Weerdenburg; Chigo Okonkwo; A. M. J. Koonen; Yingxiong Song; Min Wang

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Photonics Research
Vol. 7, Issue 11, 1363 (2019)

Mode- and wavelength-multiplexed transmission with crosstalk mitigation using a single amplified spontaneous emission source

Yetian Huang^1,2, Haoshuo Chen^2,*, Hanzi Huang^1,2, Zhengxuan Li¹..., Nicolas K. Fontaine², Roland Ryf², Juan Carlos Alvarado³, Rodrigo Amezcua-Correa³, John van Weerdenburg⁴, Chigo Okonkwo⁴, A. M. J. Koonen⁴, Yingxiong Song¹ and Min Wang¹|Show fewer author(s)

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¹Key Laboratory of Specialty Fiber Optics and Optical Access Networks, Joint International Research Laboratory of Specialty Fiber Optics and Advanced Communication, Shanghai Institute for Advanced Communication and Data Science, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China

²Nokia Bell Labs, Holmdel, New Jersey 07733, USA

³CREOL, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida 32816, USA

⁴Institute for Photonic Integration, Eindhoven University of Technology, 5600 MB, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

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Yetian Huang, Haoshuo Chen, Hanzi Huang, Zhengxuan Li, Nicolas K. Fontaine, Roland Ryf, Juan Carlos Alvarado, Rodrigo Amezcua-Correa, John van Weerdenburg, Chigo Okonkwo, A. M. J. Koonen, Yingxiong Song, Min Wang, "Mode- and wavelength-multiplexed transmission with crosstalk mitigation using a single amplified spontaneous emission source," Photonics Res. 7, 1363 (2019) Copy Citation Text

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Abstract

We propose to use the low-coherence property of amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) noise to mitigate optical crosstalk, such as spatial, polarization, and modal crosstalk, which currently limits the density of photonic integration and fibers for dense space-division multiplexing. High optical crosstalk tolerance can be achieved by ASE-based low-coherence matched detection, which avoids dedicated optical lasers and uses spectrally filtered ASE noise as the signal carrier and as a matched local oscillator. We experimentally demonstrate spatial and modal crosstalk reduction in multimode fiber (MMF) and realize mode- and wavelength-multiplexed transmission over 1.5-km MMF supporting three spatial modes using a single ASE source. Performance degradation due to model dispersion over MMF is experimentally investigated.