Title :
Efficient annular cladding amplifier with six, three-mode cores
Author :
Cang Jin;Bin Huang;Kuanping Shang;Haoshuo Chen;Roland Ryf;R. J. Essiambre;Nicolas K. Fontaine;Guifang Li;L. Wang;Y. Messaddeq;S. LaRochelle
Author_Institution :
Bell Laboratories/Alcatel-Lucent, 791 Holmdel Rd., Holmdel, NJ 07733, USA
Abstract :
We demonstrate a multi-core, multi-mode optical amplifier with 18 spatial channels pumped by a single 15-W multi-mode pump diode. The amplifier has >20-dB gain per mode, <;3-dB mode and core dependent gain, and >31 mW per spatial channel.
Keywords :
"Gain","Optical crosstalk","Optical pumping","Multicore processing","Noise measurement","Optical transmitters"
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2015 European Conference on
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2015.7341680
