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Fiber transmission demonstrations in vector mode space division multiplexing

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Much attention has been focused on the use of scalar modes for space division multiplexing (SDM). Alternative vector mode bases offer another solution set for SDM, expanding the available trade-offs in system performance and complexity. We present two types of ring core fiber conceived and designed to explore SDM with fibers exhibiting low interactions between supported modes. We review demonstrations of fiber data transmission for two separate vector mode bases: one for orbital angular momentum (OAM) modes and one for linearly polarized vector (LPV) modes. The OAM mode demonstrations include short transmissions using commercially available transceivers, as well as kilometer length transmission at extended data rates. The LPV demonstrations span kilometer length transmissions at high data rate with coherent detection, as well as a radio over fiber experiment with direct detection of narrowband signals.

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  1. Centre for Optics, Photonics and Lasers, ECE Department, Université Laval, Quebec, G1V 0A6, Canada

    Leslie A. Rusch & Sophie Larochelle

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Leslie A. Rusch received the B.S.E.E. degree (with honors) from the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, in 1980 and the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, in 1992 and 1994, respectively. She currently holds a Canada Research Chair in Communications Systems Enabling the Cloud in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Université Laval (UL), QC, Canada. She is Fellow of the IEEE and OSA and a member of the Centre for Optics, Photonics and Lasers at UL. Dr. Rusch has experience in defense, industrial and academic communications research. She was a communications project engineer for the Department of Defense from 1980 to 1990. While on leave from Université Laval, she spent two years (2001–2002) at Intel Corporation creating and managing a group researching new wireless technologies.

Prof. Rusch is the recipient of the IEEE Canada Fessenden award for Contributions to Telecommunications. She is an elected member of the Board of Governors of IEEE Photonics Society. She has served on multiple technical program committees for major international conferences, and as an associate editor of the IEEE/ OSA Journal of Optical Communications Networks and the IEEE Communications Letters. Prof. Rusch has published over 135 articles in international journals (90% IEEE/OSA) with wide readership, and contributed to over 190 conferences. Her articles have been cited over 5700 times per Google Scholar.

Prof. Rusch has won numerous awards for graduate training, including the IEEE Canada Ham Award for Graduate Supervision. Her research interests include digital signal processing for coherent detection in optical communications using silicon photonic devices, spatial multiplexing using orbital angular momentum modes in fiber, radio over fiber and OFDM for passive optical networks; and in wireless communications, supporting 5G over passive optical networks and optimization of the optical/wireless interface in emerging cloud based computing networks.

Sophie LaRochelle (M'00) received a Bachelor’s degree in engineering physics from Université Laval, Canada, in 1987; and a Ph.D. degree in optics from the College of Optical Sciences, University of Arizona, USA, in 1992.

From 1992 to 1996, she was a Research Scientist at the Defense Research and Development Canada- Valcartier, where she worked on electro-optical systems. Since 1996, she is a professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Université Laval, where she holds a Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Advanced Photonics Technologies for Communications. Her current research activities are focused on optical fibers and integrated devices for optical communication systems including silicon photonic modulators and filters, optical fiber designs for space division multiplexing and multi-core multi-mode amplifiers. Other research interests include all-optical signal processing and routing, and wavelength conversion. Over the years, Dr. LaRochelle has made highly cited contributions to the fields of fiber Bragg gratings, fiber lasers, optical CDMA and radio-over-fiber. She has published more than 400 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conferences. Dr. LaRochelle is an IEEE senior member and an OSA Fellow.

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Rusch, L.A., Larochelle, S. Fiber transmission demonstrations in vector mode space division multiplexing. Front. Optoelectron. 11, 155–162 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12200-018-0812-2

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