Bend-resistant, single-stage, S-band erbium-doped photonic crystal fiber amplifiers

Author

Varshney, Shailendra K. ; Saitoh, Kunimasa ; Koshiba, Masanori

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Electr. Commun. Eng., Indian Inst. of Technol., Kharagpur, India

fYear

2009

fDate

2-4 June 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

We present design guidelines to achieve ~ 50-dB of gain with an average gain value of 26-dB over 70-nm bandwidth in a 7.2-m long erbium-doped depressed-cladding photonic crystal fiber amplifier showing bend-resistant functionality.

Keywords

erbium; holey fibres; laser beams; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre cladding; photonic crystals; JkJk:Er; S-band erbium-doped photonic crystal fiber amplifier; bend-resistant functionality; depressed fibre cladding; gain 26 dB; size 7.2 m; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Fiber nonlinear optics; Optical design; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber networks; Optical fibers; Optical scattering; Photonic crystal fibers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission; (060.2280) Fiber design and fabrication; (060.2320) fiber optics amplifiers and oscillators; (060.2410), fibers, erbium; (060.5295) photonic crystal fibers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2009 and 2009 Conference on Quantum electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2009. Conference on

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD

Print_ISBN

978-1-55752-869-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-55752-869-8

Type

conf

Filename

5224506