Simulation of Heterogeneous Few Mode Multi-Core Fiber for Capacity Enhancement

Volume 7 Issue 3 March - May 2017

Research Paper

Simulation of Heterogeneous Few Mode Multi-Core Fiber for Capacity Enhancement

Anshu*, Sharad Mohan Shrivastava**, Vikas Sahu***

* PG Scholar, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Shri Shankaracharya Technical Campus, Bhilai, India.

**-*** Assistant Professor, Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, Shri Shankaracharya Technical Campus, Bhilai, India.

Anshu, Shrivastava, S.M., Sahu, V. (2017). Simulation of Heterogeneous Few Mode Multi-Core Fiber for Capacity Enhancement. i-manager's Journal on Electronics Engineering, 7(3), 36-46. https://doi.org/10.26634/jele.7.3.13563

Abstract

This paper aims to make understand the fundamentals and recent advancement in Multi-core Fiber Technology using Space Division Multiplexing. Few mode multi-core fiber (FM-MCF) that enable Space Division Multiplexing (SDM) have greater potential to improve the transmission capacity compared to (SSMF) Single Spatial Mode Fiber. The concept of Hetero geneous Few Mode Multi-core Fibers has paved its way in optical communication system replacing Homogeneous Few Mode Multi-core Fibers which were previously opted. In this paper, the authors have modeled MCF of different geometries with different specific parameters. The uncoupled multi-core fibers (MCFs) which can utilize multiple cores are arranged in a fiber as spatial transmission channels and then are used for the SDM transmission. Design of different structures with different number of cores are also demonstrated. Here, in this paper, the authors use COMSOL Multiphysics (5.2) for carrying out required simulations and MATLAB is used for generation of various proper graphs and field plots.