@inbook{1d17c741fa3441e6ae1e3c75a3c22fbc,
title = "Japanese National Projects on SDM Technologies",
abstract = "This chapter briefly describes pioneering Japanese national projects on SDM technologies, namely i-FREE (Innovative Optical Fiber Technologies: 2010–2012), i-ACTION (Innovative Optical Communication Infrastructure: 2011–2015), and i-FREE2 (Innovative Optical Fiber and Communication Technology for Exa-bit Era with SDM: 2013–2018), which led to setting a series of transmission capacity records per fiber of 1 Pbit/s (2012), 2 Pbit/s (2015), and 10 Pbit/s (2017) as well as capacity-distance product record of 1 Ebit/s·km (2013).",
author = "Yoshinari Awaji and Yutaka Miyamoto and Tetsuya Miyazaki and Toshio Morioka and Itsuro Morita and Kazuhide Nakajima and Hidehiko Takara and Takehiro Tsuritani",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2022, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.",
year = "2022",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-030-87619-7\_8",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-3-030-87617-3",
series = "Springer Series in Optical Sciences",
publisher = "Springer",
pages = "453--468",
booktitle = "Space-Division Multiplexing in Optical Communication Systems",
}