Demonstration of Space-to-Wavelength Conversion in SDM Networks

A scheme for the conversion of spatially multiplexed channels to a wavelength superchannel is presented and characterized. The viability of deployment of this scheme at network nodes located at the boundaries between spatial-division-multiplexed and standard single-mode fiber wavelength division multiplexed networks is demonstrated.

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