Abstract

A comprehensive study on the optical characteristics and high-speed transmission performance of a hexagonally arrayed seven-core fiber supporting both multimode transmission at 850 nm and quasi-single mode transmission at 1310 and 1550 nm are presented. We investigated its optical and transmission characteristics such as inter-crosstalk, modal bandwidth, chromatic dispersion, and misalignment tolerance. The results show that the multicore fiber (MCF) has a high bandwidth at 850 nm while remaining a comparable performance with standard single-mode fiber (SSMF) at 1310 and 1550 nm. The worst inter-core crosstalk is less than −43 dB over a 10 km-long MCF connected with a pairwise fan-in/fan-out devices. The minimum effective modal bandwidth of 8.44 GHz $\cdot$ km is achieved with the MCF for multimode operation, while the chromatic dispersion of the MCF at 1550 nm only increases by 7% compared with that of SSMF. In experiment, we successfully performed the 7 × 25 Gb/s multimode transmission over a 300 meter-long MCF at 850 nm and quasi-single mode transmission over a 12.4 and 10 km-long fiber at 1310 and 1550 nm, respectively, with an OOK modulation format. There was no obvious degradation observed when all cores operated simultaneously. Moreover, we carried out 7 × 50 Gb/s PAM4 transmission over a 300 meter-long and 10 km-long MCF at 850 and 1310 nm, respectively, as well as 7 × 40 Gb/s PAM4 transmission over a 10 km-long MCF at 1550 nm. A BER which is well below the forward error correction (FEC) threshold (5 $\times\, 10^{-5}$ ) was reached for different MCF links.

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