Optical reliability of cladding pump fiber for high power communication networks

Author

LeGrange, Jane ; Vogel, Eva ; Quoi, Kathy ; DiGiovanni, David ; Hale, Arturo ; Pedrazzani, Renee ; Strasser, Tom ; LuValle, Michael

Author_Institution

Lucent Technol., AT&T Bell Labs., Murray Hill, NJ, USA

Volume

1

fYear

1999

fDate

6/21/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

690

Abstract

High power lasers and amplifiers for communication networks based on cladding pump fiber operate at unprecedented power levels. The high power and unique structure of cladding pump fiber present new challenges to the optical reliability of lasers and amplifiers based on these novel fibers. In this paper we present results on the reliability of cladding pump fiber under high power both in the multimode pump waveguide and in the rare earth doped core

Keywords

laser reliability; optical communication equipment; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre cladding; optical fibre networks; optical pumping; cladding pump fiber; communication networks; high power amplifiers; high power communication networks; high power lasers; multimode pump waveguide; optical reliability; power levels; rare earth doped core; Fiber lasers; High power amplifiers; Laser excitation; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber communication; Optical pumping; Power lasers; Pump lasers; Stimulated emission; Telecommunication network reliability;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Military Communications Conference Proceedings, 1999. MILCOM 1999. IEEE

Conference_Location

Atlantic City, NJ

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5538-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MILCOM.1999.822772

Filename

822772