Fig. 1. The relationship of the outage probability and outage capacity C under different conditions of SNR and MDL

Fig. 2. The schematic of MDL estimation and mitigation for multi-span CC-MCF links

Fig. 3. Values of theoretical and estimated MDL under different transmission distances

Fig. 4. MDL estimation under different SMD conditions

Fig. 5. Performance of MDL mitigation using STC under different transmission distances

Fig. 6. SMD impact on the MDL mitigation using STC technique

Fig. 7. Experiment setup of 4-core CC-MCF transmission system

Fig. 8. Required MIMO tap length and Q factors under different inter-core skews

Fig. 9. Performance of MDL mitigation under different LOP conditions