Carrier Beating Impairment in Weakly Coupled Multicore Fiber-Based IM/DD Systems

Weakly coupled multicore fiber (WC-MCF) is promising for use in short-reach fiber telecommunication systems in the near future. Intercore crosstalk (XT) plays an important role in WC-MCF-based short-reach intensity-modulation/direct-detection (IM/DD) systems, because XT can significantly degrade system performance. For the first time, the combined effect of intercore XT and the frequency offset between optical carriers, which is defined as the carrier beating impairment (CBI), is measured and characterized by experiments and numerical simulations. The experimental results show that the CBI causes large fluctuations in the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) with a normally tolerable XT level. Such SNR fluctuations can additionally reduce the system’s XT tolerance (at worst 1-dB SNR degradation) by as much as 20 dB for 4-level pulse amplitude modulation (PAM-4) transmission. The simulation results show that the CBI is mainly affected by the specific properties of the laser source and the modulation depth of the transmitted signals. These results suggest that the XT should be designed to be much smaller for WC-MCF-based short-reach IM/DD systems when there is the CBI.

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