Title :
Transmission over coupled six-core fiber with two in-line cladding-pumped six-core EDFAs
Author :
Haoshuo Chen;Nicolas K. Fontaine;Roland Ryf;René-Jean Essiambre;Lixian Wang;Younès Messaddeq;Sophie LaRochelle;Tetsuya Hayashi;Takuji Nagashima;Takashi Sasaki
Author_Institution :
Bell Laboratories, Alcatel-Lucent, 791 Holmdel Rd., Holmdel, NJ 07733, USA
Abstract :
We demonstrate two in-line cladding-pumped 6-core Erbium-doped fiber amplifiers with recirculation loop transmission over 465-km coupled-6-core fiber. Total capacity of 7.2-Tb/s SDM/WDM transmission is achieved with a spectral efficiency of 18-bit/s/Hz.
Keywords :
"Optical fiber amplifiers","Optical fiber networks","Erbium-doped fiber amplifiers","Optical fiber couplers","Optical fiber devices","Optical fiber polarization"
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2015 European Conference on
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2015.7341963
