title: Design of universal fiber with demonstration of full system reaches over 100G SR4, 40G sWDM, and 100G CWDM4 transceivers.
abstract: Universal fiber has an LP01mode field diameter approximately matched to that of standard single mode fiber, while being a multimode fiber. We analyzed the dependence of the mode field diameter on the core diameter for different core delta values. Guided by the analysis, a universal fiber having a delta of 1.2% was fabricated, showing significantly reduced coupling loss of ~2.3 dB with conventional multimode fiber. We demonstrated that the fiber can transmit with full system reach in both single mode and VCSEL-based multimode transmissions, including 100G SR4, 40G sWDM, and 100G CWDM4 for the first time.
authors: Xin
authors: X
authors: Chen
authors: Jason E
authors: JE
authors: Hurley
authors: Jeffery S
authors: JS
authors: Stone
authors: Aramais R
authors: AR
authors: Zakharian
authors: Doug
authors: D
authors: Coleman
authors: Ming-Jun
authors: MJ
authors: Li