[TuC2] Multi-Mode Fibers

[TuC2-3] 25 Gb/s Few-Mode Transmission at ~850 nm over 1.5 km Graded-index Single-Mode Fiber using SM VCSEL

〇Xin Chen, Kangmei Li, Jason E. Hurley, Jeff Stone, Ming-Jun Li (Corning Incorporated, USA)

Keywords:Fibers & Cables for Communication; , Data Center Network and Subsystem; , Transmission experiments for long haul, core and metro applications including data-center interconnect.

We report a graded-index single-mode fiber with a few-mode bandwidth of 48.3 GHz·km at 850 nm. We demonstrated 25 Gb/s SM VCSEL transmission over 1.5 km of such fiber around 850 nm.