%0 Journal Article
%@ 0733-8724
%A Liu, Z
%A Karanov, B
%A Galdino, L
%A Hayes, J
%A Lavery, D
%A Clark, K
%A Shi, K
%A Elson, D
%A Thomsen, B
%A Petrovich, M
%A Richardson, D
%A Poletti, F
%A Slavik, R
%A Bayvel, P
%D 2018
%F discovery:10062803
%I Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
%J Journal of Lightwave Technology
%K Optical fiber dispersion, Optical fiber amplifiers, Optical fiber networks, Optical fiber polarization, Wavelength division multiplexing
%T Nonlinearity-free Coherent Transmission in Hollow-Core Antiresonant Fiber
%U https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10062803/
%X We demonstrate the first multi-terabit/s WDM data transmission through hollow-core antiresonant fiber (HC-ARF). 16 channels of 32-GBd dual-polarization (DP) Nyquist-shaped 256QAM signal channels were transmitted through a 270-m long fiber without observing any power penalty. In a single-channel high power transmission experiment, no nonlinearity penalty was observed for up to 1 W of received power, despite the very low chromatic dispersion of the fiber (<2 ps/nm/km). Our simulations show that such a low level of nonlinearity should enable transmission at 6.4 Tb/s over 1200 km of HC-ARF, even when the fiber attenuation is significantly greater than that of SMF-28. As signals propagate through hollow-core fibers at close to the speed of light in vacuum such a link would be of interest in latency-sensitive data transmission applications.
%Z This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. For more information, see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/.