Recent advances in low DGD few-mode fiber design, fabrication, characterization and experiments

Design principles for low loss and control of mode coupling, fabrication results for DGD control, and characterization techniques are briefly reviewed. Experimental results for fibers supporting three or six spatial modes are presented.

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