Wideband and low-loss mode scrambler for few-mode fibers based on distributed multiple point-loads
Wideband and low-loss mode scrambler for few-mode fibers based on distributed multiple point-loads
We propose a new type of all-fiber mode scrambler for mode division multiplexed data transmission based on few mode fibers. By randomly placing multiple point-loads along the fiber length, low loss and wideband mode coupling is obtained amongst all the guided modes. The effect of mode coupling is simulated from a single point-load to multiple point-loads with a specific focus on the insertion loss and wavelength dependence. In an exemplar experimental demonstration we present a mode scrambler for step-index two mode fibers incorporating 150 randomly located point-loads. Uniform mode coupling is achieved over the C band with an insertion loss of less than 1 dB.
Mode scrambler, few mode fiber, mode division multiplexing
Liu, Yaping
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Jung, Yongmin
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Yang, Zhiqun
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Zhang, Lin
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Richardson, David J.
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8 June 2021
Liu, Yaping
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Jung, Yongmin
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Yang, Zhiqun
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Zhang, Lin
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Richardson, David J.
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Liu, Yaping, Jung, Yongmin, Yang, Zhiqun, Zhang, Lin and Richardson, David J.
(2021)
Wideband and low-loss mode scrambler for few-mode fibers based on distributed multiple point-loads.
IEEE Photonics Journal, 13 (3), [7100907].
(doi:10.1109/JPHOT.2021.3087261).
Abstract
We propose a new type of all-fiber mode scrambler for mode division multiplexed data transmission based on few mode fibers. By randomly placing multiple point-loads along the fiber length, low loss and wideband mode coupling is obtained amongst all the guided modes. The effect of mode coupling is simulated from a single point-load to multiple point-loads with a specific focus on the insertion loss and wavelength dependence. In an exemplar experimental demonstration we present a mode scrambler for step-index two mode fibers incorporating 150 randomly located point-loads. Uniform mode coupling is achieved over the C band with an insertion loss of less than 1 dB.
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Point-load Mode scrambler
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Published date: 8 June 2021
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Manuscript received April 25, 2021; revised May 19, 2021; accepted June 2, 2021. Date of publication June 8, 2021; date of current version June 22, 2021. This work was supported in part by the National key R&D Program of China under Grant 2019YFA0706302, in part by the China Scholarship Council under Grant 201906250036, and in part by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council through under Grants EP/N00762X/1 and EP/P030181/1. Corresponding author: Yaping Liu (e-mail: liuyp@tju.edu.cn).
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Mode scrambler, few mode fiber, mode division multiplexing
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/450253
ISSN: 1943-0655
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