Modeling of Capacity Enhancement of Heterogeneous Few Mode Multi-Core Fiber: A Review

Volume 4 Issue 4 October - December 2016

Review Paper

Modeling of Capacity Enhancement of Heterogeneous Few Mode Multi-Core Fiber: A Review

Anshu*, Sharad Mohan Shrivastava**, Vikas Sahu***, Aakash Joshi****, Anamika Bhadra*****, Anjali S. Sanghvi******, Nirmala Tirkey*******

*,****-******* PG Scholar, Department of Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering, Shri Shankaracharya Technical Campus, Bhilai, India.

**,*** Assistant Professor, Department of Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering, Shri Shankaracharya Technical Campus, Bhilai, India.

Anshu, Shrivastava, S, M, Sahu, V, Joshi, A, Bhadra, A, Sanghvi, A. S, and Tirkey, N (2016). Modeling Of Capacity Enhancement of Heterogeneous Few Mode Multi-Core Fiber: A Review. i-manager’s Journal on Digital Signal Processing, 4(4), 35-46.https://doi.org/10.26634/jdp.4.4.8315

Abstract

This paper aims to make understand the fundamentals and recent advancement in Multi-core Fiber Technology using Space Division Multiplexing. Few Mode Multi-core Fiber (FM-MCF) that enable Space Division Multiplexing (SDM) have greater potential to improve the transmission capacity compared to Single Spatial Mode Fiber (SSMF). The concept of Heterogeneous Few Mode Multi-core Fibers has paved its way in optical communication system by replacing Homogeneous Few Mode Multi-core Fibers which were previously opted. The uncoupled Multi-core Fibers (MCFs) which can utilize multiple cores are arranged in a fiber as spatial transmission channels and then is used for the SDM transmission. Design of 36 core and 3 mode is also demonstrated. Measurement of Inter-core XT for different bending radius is studied. And to give the readers a glimpse of recent development in Multi-core Fiber (MCF) technology, some noticeable research papers have also been discussed. System implementations based on MCF are mentioned along with future research directions.