Uncoupled 4-core Fibre with Ultra-low Loss and Low Inter Core Crosstalk
White Paper
Masanori Takahashi, Koichi Maeda, Keiichi Aiso, Kazunori Mukasa, Ryuichi Sugizaki, Daiki Soma, Hidenori Takahashi, Takehiro Tsuritani, Miranda Mitrovic, Bera Pálsdóttir, and Yoshihiro Arashitani
An uncoupled 125-μm-cladding 4-core multicore fibre (MCF) with record low-loss of 0.155dB/km among uncoupled MCFs was realized. Span loss of 60.2km MCF was reduced to less than 10dB including fan-in and fan-out. Inter core crosstalk of the MCF is less than -60dB/100km.