Journal
JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY
Volume 37, Issue 3, Pages 989-999Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2018.2885008
Keywords
Few-mode fiber; fiber nonlinearity; linear mode coupling; mode-division multiplexing
Funding
- European Union [654809-HSPACE, 659950-INVENTION]
- EPSRC [EP/L000091/1-PEACE, EP/R024057/1-FPA-ROCS]
- EPSRC [EP/L000091/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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This paper reviews and extends the study of nonlinear performance of few-mode fiber links operating in all different linear coupling regimes for different mode delay maps. Nonlinear performance was estimated using the four-wave-mixing theory and the split-step Fourier method including semi-analytical solutions for linear mode coupling of arbitrary strength. The optimum link configurations minimizing the nonlinear penalty at practical levels of training sequence length are presented, including the required coupling strength to give nonlinear distortion below that of the single-mode propagation without mode coupling, and the impact of mode delay maps. Finally, different approximate solution methods of the multimode nonlinear Schrodinger equation are compared, highlighting the accuracy of a stochastic solution method including distributed linear mode coupling.
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