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[WD1-1]Space-Division Multiplexed transmission in Deployed Fibers
○Cristian Antonelli1,2, Antonio Mecozzi1, Andrea Marotta1,2, Fabio Graziosi1,2, Giammarco Di Sciullo1,2, Divya Ann Shaji1,2, L. A. Zischler1,2, Qi Wu1, Mikael Mazur3, Nicolas Fontaine3, Lauren Dallachiesa3, Roland Ryf3, Ruben Luis4, Benjamin Puttnam4, D. Orsuti4, Hideaki Furukawa4, Georg Rademacher5, Robert Emmerich6, Colja Schubert6, Tetsuya Hayashi7, T. Nakanishi7, T. Nagashima7, Pierre Sillard8, D. Ribezzo9, Davide Bacco9,10, Alessandro Zavatta10, Mujtaba Zahidy11, Leif Oxenløwe11, M. Cappelletti12, Luca Palmieri12,2, Paola Parolari13, A. Gatto13, P. Martelli13, M. Fasano13, P. Boffi13, Nicola Sambo14,2, Andrea Carena15,2, Antonino Nespola16, Sterenn Guerrier17, C. Dorize17, J. Renaudier17, Nazanin Hoghooghi18, F. Quinlan18 (1Univ. of L'Aquila, 2CNIT National Laboratory of Advanced Optical Fibers for Photonics, 3Nokia Bell Labs US, 4National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, 5Univ. of Stuttgart, 6Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute HHI, 7Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., 8Prysmian Group, 9Università di Firenze, 10Quantum Telecommunications Italy, 11Technical Univ. of Denmark, 12Univ. of Padova, 13Politecnico di Milano, 14Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, 15Politecnico di Torino, 16LINKS Foundation, 17Nokia Bell Labs France, 18National Institute of Standards and Technology)
This work reviews six years of experience with the world’s first fiber-optic infrastructure for space-division multiplexed (SDM) transmission. Deployed and expanding in the Italian city of L’Aquila, this unique infrastructure catalyzes global SDM research.