• DocumentCode
    3077473
  • Title

    Multicore erbium-doped fiber amplifier

  • Author

    Abedin, Kazi

  • Author_Institution
    OFS Labs., Somerset, NJ, USA
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    2-6 July 2012
  • Firstpage
    483
  • Lastpage
    484
  • Abstract
    A multicore erbium-doped fiber (MC-EDF) amplifier for simultaneous amplification in the 7-cores has been developed, and the gain and noise properties of individual cores are studied. For a pump power of 146 mW, the average gain achieved in the MC-EDF fiber was 30 dB, and noise figure was less than 4 dB. The net useful gain from the multicore-amplifler, after taking into consideration of all the passive losses, was about 23-27 dB. Pump induced ASE noise transfer between the neighboring channel was found to be negligible.
  • Keywords
    erbium; optical fibre amplifiers; optical pumping; Er; MC-EDF fiber; gain properties; multicore erbium-doped fiber amplifier; multicore-amplifler; noise figure; noise properties; passive losses; power 146 mW; pump induced ASE noise transfer; pump power;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference (OECC), 2012 17th
  • Conference_Location
    Busan
  • ISSN
    2166-8884
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-0976-9
  • Electronic_ISBN
    2166-8884
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/OECC.2012.6276533
  • Filename
    6276533