DocumentCode
161321
Title
Few-mode multi-element fiber amplifier for mode division multiplexing
Author
Jung, Yongmin ; Jain, Sonal ; May-Smith, T.C. ; Sahu, J.K. ; Alam, S.U. ; Richardson, D.J.
Author_Institution
Optoelectron. Res. Centre, Univ. of Southampton, Southampton, UK
fYear
2014
fDate
21-25 Sept. 2014
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
3
Abstract
We present a 3-moded cladding-pumped multi-element fiber amplifier comprising 4 Er/Yb doped signal fibers and 1 multimode pump-delivery fiber with spatial multiplicity of 12. An average signal gain of 18dB and differential modal gain of 2-5dB are achieved.
Keywords
optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre cladding; space division multiplexing; few mode cladding pumped multielement fiber amplifier; gain 18 dB; gain 2 dB to 5 dB; mode division multiplexing; multimode pump-delivery fiber; signal fiber doping; spatial multiplicity; Erbium; Gain; Multiplexing; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber networks;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2014 European Conference on
Conference_Location
Cannes
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ECOC.2014.6964020
Filename
6964020
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