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BEYOND 100G OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS Enhancing Optical Communications with Brand New Fibers Toshio Morioka, DTU Fotonik Yoshinari Awaji, NICT Roland Ryf, Peter Winzer, Alcatel-Lucent David Richardson and Francesco Poletti, University of Southampton ABSTRACT orders of magnitude) transmission capacities, intensive worldwide research efforts have started Optical fibers have often been considered to to look at exploiting the final degree of multiplex- offer effectively infinite capacity to support the ing freedom available: space. This requires the rapid traffic growth essential to our information development of new concepts, fibers, and ampli- society. However, as demand has grown and fiers for space-division multiplexing (SDM). technology has developed, we have begun to Space-division multiplexing can be imple- realize that there is a fundamental limit to fiber mented by establishing independent diverse light capacity of ~ 100 Tb/s per fiber for systems paths in a single fiber in two ways. The first is based on conventional single-core single-mode via multicore fibers (MCFs), where a multitude optical fiber as the transmission medium. This of waveguides are introduced at different posi- limit arises from the interplay of a number of tions in the fiber cross-section. The waveguides factors including the Shannon limit, optical fiber can act as independent channels if the coupling