Title :
Experimental demonstration of a gain-flattening filter for few-mode fiber based on a spatial light modulator
Author :
Ip, Ezra ; Ruo Yu Gu ; Ming-Jun Li ; Yue-Kai Huang ; Kahn, Juliette
Author_Institution :
NEC Labs. America, Princeton, NJ, USA
Abstract :
We demonstrate a spatial light modulator-based few-mode fiber gain-flattening filter (FM-GFF). Arbitrary insertion loss is induced by a phase scattering function. We use the FM-GFF to flatten the output of a few-mode erbium-doped fiber amplifier.
Keywords :
erbium; light scattering; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre losses; optical filters; spatial light modulators; Er; FM-GFF; arbitrary insertion loss; few-mode erbium-doped fiber amplifier; few-mode fiber gain-flattening filter; phase scattering function; spatial light modulator; Insertion loss; Lenses; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber devices; Power generation; Scattering;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2014
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-5575-2994-7
DOI :
10.1364/OFC.2014.M2I.2
