Mode-Multiplexed Transmission Over 36 Spatial Modes of a Graded-Index Multimode Fiber

We show <tex>$72\times 72$</tex> MIMO based transmission over a 2 km long <tex>$50\mu m$</tex> graded-index multimode fiber with a spectral efficiency of 72 bitls/Hz.

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