Embodiments provide an optical transmission system comprising an optical transmitter configured to transmit data over an optical fiber transmission channel comprising a multi-core fiber, the data being carried by one or more optical signals propagating along the multi-core fiber according to a plurality of cores, each core among the plurality of cores being associated with one or more core parameters, wherein the optical transmission system comprises a core selection device configured to select a set of transmit cores among the plurality of cores according to a transmit core selection criterion, the transmit core selection criterion being related to the one or more core parameters, the optical transmitter being configured to transmit the data over the set of transmit cores.

Embodiments provide an optical transmission system comprising an optical transmitter configured to transmit data over an optical fiber transmission channel comprising a multi-core fiber, the data being carried by one or more optical signals propagating along the multi-core fiber according to a plurality of cores, each core among the plurality of cores being associated with one or more core parameters, wherein the optical transmission system comprises a core selection device configured to select a set of transmit cores among the plurality of cores according to a transmit core selection criterion, the transmit core selection criterion being related to the one or more core parameters, the optical transmitter being configured to transmit the data over the set of transmit cores.

A quantum communications system includes a quantum key generation system having a photonic quantum bit generator, a dispersion compensating optical fiber link, and a photon detector unit and a communications network having a signal generator, a signal channel, and a signal receiver. The dispersion compensating optical fiber link extends between and optically couples the photonic quantum bit generator and the photon detector unit. Further, the dispersion compensating optical fiber link is structurally configured to induce dispersion at an absolute dispersion rate of about 9 ps/(nm)km or less and induce attenuation at an attenuation rate of about 0.18 dB/Km or less such that the quantum key bit information of a plurality of photons output by the one or more photonic quantum bit generators is receivable at the photon detector unit at a bit rate of at least about 10 Gbit/sec.

A quantum communications system includes a quantum key generation system having a photonic quantum bit generator, a dispersion compensating optical fiber link, and a photon detector unit and a communications network having a signal generator, a signal channel, and a signal receiver. The dispersion compensating optical fiber link extends between and optically couples the photonic quantum bit generator and the photon detector unit. Further, the dispersion compensating optical fiber link is structurally configured to induce dispersion at an absolute dispersion rate of about 9 ps/(nm)km or less and induce attenuation at an attenuation rate of about 0.18 dB/Km or less such that the quantum key bit information of a plurality of photons output by the one or more photonic quantum bit generators is receivable at the photon detector unit at a bit rate of at least about 10 Gbit/sec.

A method for determining if a graded-index glass optical multimode fiber has a refractive index profile that will compensate modal dispersion with chromatic dispersion when used in an optical channel having a multimode vertical cavity surface emitting laser has at least two weighting functions. The functions are used to compute the relative mode group delays over two radial offset regions within the core of the optical fiber. The peak group delay of the of the higher-order fiber mode distribution is less than the peak group delay of the lower-order mode distribution.

A method for determining if a graded-index glass optical multimode fiber has a refractive index profile that will compensate modal dispersion with chromatic dispersion when used in an optical channel having a multimode vertical cavity surface emitting laser has at least two weighting functions. The functions are used to compute the relative mode group delays over two radial offset regions within the core of the optical fiber. The peak group delay of the of the higher-order fiber mode distribution is less than the peak group delay of the lower-order mode distribution.

Provided by the embodiments of the present invention are a remote optical fiber dispersion compensation device and method, the dispersion compensation device comprising: a distance measurement module, used for measuring a remote distance to a remote access optical fiber; a channel monitoring module, used for monitoring the spectral power of a transmission service wavelength channel; and a remote optical fiber dispersion power equalization module, used for compensating the dispersion of a transmission service signal and adjusting the insertion loss of the wavelength channel according to the measured remote distance of the remote access optical fiber and the monitored spectral power of the transmission service wavelength channel. By employing the embodiments of the present invention, compensation amounts of different channels may be flexibly selected by means of a wavelength selection switch, dispersion may be compensated for remote optical fiber transmission and the insertion loss may be adjusted for different channels by presetting dispersion compensation optical fibers of different lengths, thus achieving compensation and equalization of dispersion and power difference introduced by remote optical fibers of different lengths.

Provided by the embodiments of the present invention are a remote optical fiber dispersion compensation device and method, the dispersion compensation device comprising: a distance measurement module, used for measuring a remote distance to a remote access optical fiber; a channel monitoring module, used for monitoring the spectral power of a transmission service wavelength channel; and a remote optical fiber dispersion power equalization module, used for compensating the dispersion of a transmission service signal and adjusting the insertion loss of the wavelength channel according to the measured remote distance of the remote access optical fiber and the monitored spectral power of the transmission service wavelength channel. By employing the embodiments of the present invention, compensation amounts of different channels may be flexibly selected by means of a wavelength selection switch, dispersion may be compensated for remote optical fiber transmission and the insertion loss may be adjusted for different channels by presetting dispersion compensation optical fibers of different lengths, thus achieving compensation and equalization of dispersion and power difference introduced by remote optical fibers of different lengths.

An optical fiber transmission system and method for using the system are provided. The system may include a span of transmission fiber for transmitting light signals through the optical fiber transmission system. The system may include a dispersion compensating module coupled to the span of transmission fiber. The system may include a switchable module including a set of selectable light signal paths, the set of selectable light signal paths including at least one path through a dispersion compensating element. The system may include a processor coupled to the switchable module for selectively monitoring the set of selectable light signal paths, where the processor is further configured to derive a metric based on the set of selectable light signal paths for controlling the dispersion compensating module.

Provided by the embodiments of the present invention are a remote optical fiber dispersion compensation device and method, the dispersion compensation device comprising: a distance measurement module, used for measuring a remote distance to a remote access optical fiber; a channel monitoring module, used for monitoring the spectral power of a transmission service wavelength channel; and a remote optical fiber dispersion power equalization module, used for compensating the dispersion of a transmission service signal and adjusting the insertion loss of the wavelength channel according to the measured remote distance of the remote access optical fiber and the monitored spectral power of the transmission service wavelength channel. By employing the embodiments of the present invention, compensation amounts of different channels may be flexibly selected by means of a wavelength selection switch, dispersion may be compensated for remote optical fiber transmission and the insertion loss may be adjusted for different channels by presetting dispersion compensation optical fibers of different lengths, thus achieving compensation and equalization of dispersion and power difference introduced by remote optical fibers of different lengths.