Abstract
We proposed a mode group delay managed transmission line for a WDM-MIMO system
consisting of fibers with positive and negative DMDs to compensate for the total DMD. We
show numerically that the multi-step index fiber can flexibly tune the DMD. We
fabricated fibers for use in a C-L band WDM-MIMO system, and realized a 20.4 km-long DMD
compensated transmission line with a total absolute DMD of less than 111 ps over the
entire C-L band. Finally, we achieved a 2 x 2 WDM-MIMO transmission within the C-L band
by using equalizers with a small tap number.
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