High Speed Ethernet Transmission over Multicore Fibers for Data Center Applications

• Published in: 2021 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC) pp. 1 - 2
• Main Authors: Sun, Yi, Lingle, Robert, Inniss, Daryl, Shubochkin, Roman
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.10.2021
• Subjects: 400GBASE-DR4; 400GBASE-FR4; 400GBASE-LR4; 400GBASE-SR4.2; Conferences; Data centers; Ethernet; MCF; multicore fiber; Multicore processing; Multimode; Photonics; single mode; Transceivers

We demonstrated the feasibility of supporting > 400 Gb/s ethernet traffic transmission over an 8-core multimode multicore fiber (MM-MCF) and a 4-core single mode multicore fiber (SM-MCF) in distances suitable for datacenter applications using several off-shelf 400GbE transceivers.