Title :
Design of multi-mode erbium-doped fiber amplifiers for low mode-dependent gain
Author :
Askarov, Daulet ; Kahn, Joseph M.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA, USA
Abstract :
Erbium-doped fiber amplifiers for 12 signal modes (six spatial modes in two polarizations) are studied by numerically solving multi-mode rate equations. Mode-dependent gains are compared for different numerical apertures, index profiles and doping profiles.
Keywords :
doping profiles; erbium; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre polarisation; doping profiles; index profiles; low mode-dependent gain; mode-dependent gains; multimode erbium-doped fiber amplifiers; multimode rate equations; numerical apertures; polarizations; signal modes; spatial modes; Doping; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber networks; Optical fiber polarization;
Conference_Titel :
Photonics Society Summer Topical Meeting Series, 2012 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Seattle, WA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1526-6
DOI :
10.1109/PHOSST.2012.6280806
