Fundamental-mode MMF transmission enabled by mode conversion

Abstract Modal dispersion in conventional multi-mode fiber (MMF) will cause serious signal degradation and an effective solution is to restrict the signal transmission in the fundamental mode of MMF. In this paper, unlike previous methods by filtering out higher-order modes, we propose to adopt low-modal-crosstalk mode converters to realize fundamental-mode MMF transmission. We design and fabricate all-fiber mode-selective couplers (MSC), which perform mode conversion between the fundamental mode in single-mode fiber (SMF) and fundamental mode in MMF. The proposed scheme is experimentally compared with center launching method under different MMF links and then its wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) transmission performance is investigated. Experimental results indicate that the proposed mode conversion scheme could achieve better transmission performance and works well for the whole C-band.

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