Abstract
We present a low-loss weakly guiding ring-core fiber for orbital angular momentum (OAM) mode group multiplexing (MGM) transmission. This special fiber design supports 50 radially fundamental modes divided into 13 mode groups with only 0.7% relative refractive index difference between the fiber ring core and cladding. Except the first two groups with 10-5 mode spacing, the other mode groups are separated with each other with effective refractive index difference (Δneff) larger than 10-4, indicating relatively low-level inter-group crosstalk. One can directly use different OAM mode groups for MGM communications without multiple-input multiple-output digital signal processing (MIMO-DSP) technique. Besides, one can employ different OAM modes among the same mode group to carry different data information assisted by small-scale MIMO technique. The target fiber exhibits small and flat dispersion within (14.3, 39.7) ps/nm/km which is comparable to that in the standard single-mode fiber (SMF), and extremely large mode area within (787.9, 841.2) µm2 over the whole C + L band. MIMO equalization complexities for modified small-scale MIMO-DSP assisted intra-group modes multiplexing combined with MIMO-free inter-group modes multiplexing method in both time and frequency domain are much simpler compared to traditional 50×50 MIMO equalization.
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