%J Journal of Lightwave Technology
%K Optical fiber dispersion, Optical fiber amplifiers, Optical fiber networks, Optical fiber polarization, Wavelength division multiplexing
%L discovery10062803
%O This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. For more information, see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/.
%D 2018
%T Nonlinearity-free Coherent Transmission in Hollow-Core Antiresonant Fiber
%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.
%A Z Liu
%A B Karanov
%A L Galdino
%A J Hayes
%A D Lavery
%A K Clark
%A K Shi
%A D Elson
%A B Thomsen
%A M Petrovich
%A D Richardson
%A F Poletti
%A R Slavik
%A P Bayvel
%I Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers