Design of Transmission Fibers and Doped Fiber Amplifiers for Mode-Division Multiplexing

Author

Askarov, Daulet ; Kahn, Joseph M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA, USA

Volume

24

Issue

21

fYear

2012

Firstpage

1945

Lastpage

1948

Abstract

Transmission fibers and erbium-doped fiber amplifiers (EDFAs) for 12 signal modes (including spatial and polarization degrees of freedom) are studied. Modal fields are computed numerically and their effective areas, group delays (GDs), and chromatic dispersion coefficients are determined. Multimode rate equations are solved numerically to calculate mode-dependent gains (MDGs) and pump power requirements in multimode EDFAs. Results are compared for various numerical apertures (NAs), index profiles, and doping profiles. Graded-index depressed-cladding fibers offer an attractive combination of low GD spread in transmission fibers (583 ps/km rms with 0.15 NA) and low MDG in EDFAs (0.14 dB rms at 25-dB mode averaged gain with 0.15 NA). Optimized erbium doping profiles are comprised of a uniform cylindrical region plus an extra annulus.

Keywords

erbium; optical communication equipment; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre dispersion; wavelength division multiplexing; MDG; chromatic dispersion coefficients; doping profiles; erbium doped fiber amplifiers; graded index depressed cladding fibers; group delays; index profiles; modal fields; mode dependent gains; mode division multiplexing; multimode rate equations; numerical apertures; pump power requirements; transmission fibers; Apertures; Indexes; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber polarization; Silicon; Multiplexing; optical fiber amplifiers; optical fibers;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2012.2218654

Filename

6316068