• DocumentCode
    3096326
  • Title

    Optical fiber amplifier employing a bundle of reduced cladding erbium-doped fibers for multi-core fiber transmission

  • Author

    Tsujikawa, Kyozo ; Ma, Lin ; Ichii, Kentaro ; Matsuo, Shoichiro ; Yamada, Makoto ; Hanzawa, Nobutomo ; Ono, Hirotaka

  • Author_Institution
    NTT Access Network Service Syst. Labs., NTT Corp., Yokosuka, Japan
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    9-11 July 2012
  • Firstpage
    228
  • Lastpage
    229
  • Abstract
    We propose a novel optical amplifier that employs a bundle of erbium-doped fibers for multi-core fiber transmission. We demonstrate the amplification of seven independent signals by using a bundle of EDFs with 60 μm cladding.
  • Keywords
    erbium; optical communication equipment; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre cladding; optical fibre communication; optical fibre fabrication; EDF; multicore fiber transmission; optical fiber amplifier; reduced cladding erbium-doped fibers; size 60 mum; Coatings; Gain; Noise figure; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber networks;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Photonics Society Summer Topical Meeting Series, 2012 IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Seattle, WA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-1526-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/PHOSST.2012.6280810
  • Filename
    6280810