Kavanagh, N;Sadiq, M;Shortiss, K;Zhang, H;Thomas, K;Gocalinska, A;Zhao, Y;Pelucchi, E;O'Brien, P;Peters, FH;Corbett, B;Gunning, FCG

2016 18TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON TRANSPARENT OPTICAL NETWORKS (ICTON)

Exploring a New Transmission Window for Telecommunications in the 2 mu m Waveband

2016

January

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PHOTONIC BANDGAP FIBER ULTIMATE LOW-LOSS WDM TRANSMISSION

In this paper, we will demonstrate the possibility of opening a new telecommunications transmission window around the 2 mu m wavelength, in order to exploit the potential low loss of hollow-core photonic bandgap fibers, with the benefits of significantly lower non-linearity and latency. We will show recent efforts developing a dense wavelength division multiplexing testbed at this waveband, with 100 GHz spacing wavelength channels and 105 Gbit/s total capacity achieved.