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Low loss, large bandwidth antiresonant hollow-core fiber design for short-reach links

Low loss, large bandwidth antiresonant hollow-core fiber design for short-reach links
Low loss, large bandwidth antiresonant hollow-core fiber design for short-reach links
We present antiresonant hollow-core optical fibre designs for VCSEL-based short-reach transmission applications in the 850nm band. Our simulations show that lower loss and twice the bandwidth of solid, multi-mode, graded index fibres are possible.
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Shere, W.
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Jasion, G.T.
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Shere, W., Jasion, G.T., Numkam Fokoua, E. and Poletti, F. (2020) Low loss, large bandwidth antiresonant hollow-core fiber design for short-reach links. In Optical Fiber Communication Conference 2020. OSA.. (doi:10.1364/OFC.2020.W4D.3).

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We present antiresonant hollow-core optical fibre designs for VCSEL-based short-reach transmission applications in the 850nm band. Our simulations show that lower loss and twice the bandwidth of solid, multi-mode, graded index fibres are possible.

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Published date: March 2020
Additional Information: Funding Information: Besides, one might think of exploiting the wide optical bandwidth and low chromatic dispersion of the fibres to implement WDM at low baud rates, in combination perhaps with higher order modulation techniques that can address the limitations imposed by such relatively high DGD. Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) for example, is a format that is known to be resilient to multipath interference [10]. 4. Conclusions We have presented an approach to achieve low loss, multi-mode operation of hollow-core, antiresonant fibres based on the ALIF structure. Using this approach, a series of fibres were designed with increased multi-mode content. A fibre with twice the bandwidth of the current generation of GI fibre targeting WDM for short-reach datacoms was chosen as the best trade-off. This geometry guides 7 mode groups, or a total of 24 modes, with losses under 0.6 dB/km. Although the single channel data rate is likely inferior to DGD optimised GI fibre due to a large DGD, the proposed fibre has the potential to achieve 100 Gb/s data rate or better using WDM over its increased bandwidth. OFDM is suggested as a modulation format to mitigate the effects of DGD in which case the bandwidth could be used to achieve 200 Gb/s or greater data rates. The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the UK RAEng and of an ERC fellowship (grant agreement no. 682724). References [1] J. Heinrich, E. Zeeb, and K. J. Ebeling, IEEE Photonics Technol. Lett., vol. 9, no. 12, pp. 1555–1557, 1997. [2] R. Michalzik, VCSELs: fundamentals, technology and applications of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers, vol. 166. Springer, 2012. [3] IEEE standard 802.3bm, 2015. [4] F. Poletti, Opt. Express, vol. 22, no. 20, p. 23807, 2014. [5] T. D. Bradley et al., Eur. Conf. Opt. Commun., vol. 1, pp. 1–4, 2019. [6] G. T. Jasion, D. J. Richardson, and F. Poletti, in Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) 2019, 2019, p. Th3E.2. [7] E. N. Fokoua et al., in Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) 2014, 2014, pp. 1–3. [8] A. N. Kolyadin et al., Opt. Express, vol. 21, no. 8, pp. 9514–9519, 2013. [9] P. Pepeljugoski, D. Kuchta, Y. Kwark, P. Pleunis, and G. Kuyt, IEEE Photonics Technol. Lett., vol. 14, no. 5, pp. 717–719, 2002. [10] A. James Lowery and J. Armstrong, Opt. Express, vol. 14, no. 6, pp. 2079–2084, 2006. Publisher Copyright: © 2020 OSA.
Venue - Dates: Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC '20), , San Diego, United States, 2020-03-08 - 2020-03-12

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ORCID for W. Shere: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-5159-7132
ORCID for G.T. Jasion: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-5030-6479
ORCID for E. Numkam Fokoua: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-0873-911X
ORCID for F. Poletti: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-1000-3083

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