Journal
IEEE PHOTONICS JOURNAL
Volume 4, Issue 2, Pages 647-651Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOT.2012.2189379
Keywords
Wavelength-division multiplexing; spatial multiplexing; space-division multiplexing (SDM)
Ask authors/readers for more resources
Wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) has been the workhorse of data networks, accommodating exponential traffic growth for two decades. Recently, however, progress in WDM capacity research has markedly slowed down as experiments are closely approaching fundamental Shannon limits of nonlinear fiber transmission. Space-division multiplexing (SDM) is expected to further scale network capacities, using parallel strands of single-mode fiber, uncoupled or coupled cores of multicore fiber, or even individual modes of few-mode fiber in combination with multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) digital signal processing. At the beginning of a new era in optical communications, we review initial research in SDM technologies and address some of the key challenges ahead.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available