Abstract
We designed and fabricated 7-core and 19-core few-mode fibers with large Aeff of 170μm2 (LP01 mode). We discuss the potentials and required challenges of realizing large-Aeff multi-core few-mode fibers taking intra-core and inter-core cross-talk into account.
© 2012 Optical Society of America
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