• DocumentCode
    1794557
  • Title

    Programmable gain equalizer for multi-core fiber amplifiers

  • Author

    Fontaine, Nicolas K. ; Guan, B. ; Ryf, R. ; Chen, Huanting ; Koonen, A.M.J. ; Ben Yoo, S.J. ; Abedin, Kazi ; Fini, John ; Taunay, Thierry F. ; Neilson, David T.

  • Author_Institution
    Bell Labs., Alcatel-Lucent, Holmdel, NJ, USA
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    9-13 March 2014
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate a programmable gain equalizer for 7-core fiber that can independently equalize spectra or block wavelengths in each core across the C-band. It is spliced directly to a side-pumped multi-core amplifying fiber.
  • Keywords
    equalisers; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre fabrication; C-band; fibre splicing; multicore fiber amplifier; programmable gain equalizer; side pumped multicore amplifying fiber; spectra equalizer; Equalizers; Gain; Gratings; Laser excitation; Lenses; Multicore processing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2014
  • Conference_Location
    San Francisco, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-5575-2994-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1364/OFC.2014.Th5C.5
  • Filename
    6887232