[TuE3] Design, Fabrication and Characterization of SDM Fibers

2:30 PM - 2:45 PM JST(5:30 AM - 5:45 AM UTC)

[TuE3-2] Polarity-Insensitive Core Number Management of Multi-core Fiber

○Takuya Oda¹, Yoshifumi Koike¹, Kentaro Ichii¹ (1.Fujikura Ltd.)

Keywords:

Fibers for space division multiplexing

This study proposes a novel core number management method for multi-core fibers (MCFs) that simplifies polarity management even compared to existing single-core fiber-based cable systems by unifying polarity states at both ends of MCF links.