Abstract:We demonstrate mode-division multiplexed WDM transmission over 50-km of few-mode fiber using the fiber's LP 01 and two degenerate LP 11 modes. A few-mode EDFA is used to boost the power of the output signal before a few-mode coherent receiver. A 6×6 time-domain MIMO equalizer is used to recover the transmitted data. We also experimentally characterize the 50-km few-mode fiber and the few-mode EDFA.

We experimentally demonstrate the first few-mode space division multiplexed (SDM) transmission of real-time 10Gb/s Ethernet (10GbE) traffic using commercial small form-factor pluggable SFP + transceivers without coherent detection or multiple input multiple output digital signal processing (MIMO-DSP) over 0.5km elliptical-core few-mode-fiber, achieving <-26dB crosstalk between LP(11e) and LP(11o) modes at 1.3μm.

The zone plates ͑diffractive lenses͒ are not commonly used as image formation systems owing to their low efficiency and multifocal characteristics. In this paper we make a revision of the Fresnel zone plate principles, and present various kinds of zone plates designed to solve the problem of obtaining a limited number of foci with higher efficiency. The purpose of this work was to design, by using Fermat's principle, a zone-plate profile with high focusing efficiency in only one or two foci, while maintaining a low efficiency in the others. Applying Fermat's principle to this task results in the kinoform profile of the plate. Calculation of the kinoform profile efficiency reveals that it is the best possible solution to this problem. ©

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