Abstract
Conference Title: 2015 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC) Conference Start Date: 2015, March 22 Conference End Date: 2015, March 26 Conference Location: Los Angeles, CA, USA We study the performance of six-mode and ten-mode fiber-based SDM systems impaired by mode-dependent-loss when selecting an appropriate set of modes for multiplexing at the transmitter, and detecting more modes at the receiver.