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Published on: March 20, 2017
Investigating self-homodyne coherent detection in a 19 channel space-division-multiplexed transmission link
Benjamin J Puttnam1, Jun Sakaguchi, José Manuel Delgado Mendinueta
1National Institute of Information & Comms. Technology (NICT), 4-2-1 Nukui-kita, Koganei, Tokyo 184-8795, Japan. ben@nict.go.jp
Abstract:
We investigate the performance of a self-homodyne coherent detection (SHCD) system using a 19 core multi-core fiber (MCF) and 16 wavelength-division-multiplexed channels. We show that SHCD, with the pilot-tone transmitted on a single MCF core and information carrying signals on the remaining cores, is compatible with space-division-multiplexed transmission, potentially relaxing laser linewidth and digital signal processing requirements due to phase noise cancellation. However, inter-core crosstalk can have an impact on performance and core selection.
