A rigorous analysis of the intermodal delay in few-mode fibers

Milan S. Kovacevic; Kenneth K.Y. Wong; Kyunghwan Oh

doi:10.1007/s12648-017-1057-4

A rigorous analysis of the intermodal delay in few-mode fibers

Milan S. Kovacevic, Kenneth K.Y. Wong, Kyunghwan Oh

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The intermodal delay is one of the fundamental issues in the mode of transmission which limits the propagation distance of mode division multiplexing. In this paper the theoretical background and a numerical analysis of intermodal group velocity dispersion in step-index of few-mode fiber are given. The numerical analysis is based on the general solution of the characteristic equation for step-index few mode fiber in order to compute normalized propagation constant, group delay and finally the group delay difference between fundamental LP₀₁ mode and three selected higher modes. It was found that the material dispersion is not a negligible part of the total intermodal delay and so it should be included.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1609-1614
Number of pages	6
Journal	Indian Journal of Physics
Volume	91
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s12648-017-1057-4
Publication status	Published - 2017 Dec 1

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Acknowledgements The work described in this paper was supported in part by grants from Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China (Project Nos. HKU 7172/12E, HKU 17208414, HKU 17205215) and by a grant from Serbian Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development (Project No. 171011).

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