[WB1] SDM Networks

[WB1-3] Transmission and Crosstalk Measurements in MC-EDFA amplified 19-core link

〇Benjamin J. Puttnam¹, Georg Rademacher¹, Ruben S. Luís¹, Tobias A Eriksson^1,3, Werner Klaus¹, Yoshinari Awaji¹, Naoya Wada¹, Koichi Maeda², Shigehiro Takasaka², Ryuichi Sugizaki² (¹NICT, Japan, ²Furukawa Electric co., Ltd., Japan, ³AlbaNova University Center, Sweden)

キーワード：・Transmission experiments for long haul, core and metro applications including data-center interconnect

We investigate long-haul, wideband transmission of PDM-QPSK and PDM 16-QAM in an MCF link amplified in a C+L-band,19-core cladding pumped EDFA and measure a combined fiber/EDFA crosstalk penalty of 14% for long-wavelength L-band channel.