Nonlinear effects in long-haul transmission over bimodal optical fibre

19 September 2010

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A model for nonlinear propagation over bimodal fiber is proposed. Through numerical simulations, the tolerance to nonlinear effects of Mode Division Multiplexing (MDM) is estimated using the example of a 7×200Gb/s WDM MDM-QPSK transmission over 1200km.