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[PDP 3]Field-Deployed Multi-Core Fiber Testbed
〇Tetsuya Hayashi1, Takuji Nagashima1, Tetsuya Nakanishi1, Tetsu Morishima1, Reiji Kawawada1, Antonio Mecozzi2, Cristian Antonelli2 (1Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Japan, 2Univ. of L’Aquila, Italy)
Keywords:
Fibers for space division multiplexing; Fibers & Cables for Communication; Fiber cabling,installation,and maintenance
We installed a multi-core fiber (MCF) cable in underground tunnels in a city in Italy, without significant crosstalk degradation in uncoupled MCFs, and with the lowest-ever spatial mode dispersion in randomly-coupled MCFs.
