Throughput Scaling for MMF-Enabled Optical Datacenter Networks by Time-Slicing-Based Crosstalk Mitigation

Zhizhen Zhong, Nan Hua, Yufang Yu +8

Modal crosstalk is the main bottleneck in MMF-enabled optical datacenter networks with direct detection. A novel time-slicing-based crosstalk-mitigated MDM scheme is first proposed…