Multi-core processor

Materials science

Quadrature amplitude modulation

Operating system

Telecommunications

Parallel computing

Core (optical fiber)

Computer science

Wavelength

Physics

Optics

Bit error rate

Composite material

Fiber

Transmission (telecommunications)

Spectral efficiency

Channel (broadcasting)

Wavelength-division multiplexing

Optoelectronics

Mode (computer interface)

We demonstrate transmission of 368-WDM-38-core-3-mode × 24.5-GBaud 64-and 256-QAM signals over 13 km. Record data-rate and spectral-efficiency of 1158.7 b/s/Hz were enabled by a low DMD 38-core-3-mode fiber with high uniformity amongst cores.

10.66 Peta-Bit/s Transmission over a 38-Core-Three-Mode Fiber