• DocumentCode
    608370
  • Title

    Experimental characterization of a ring-profile few-mode erbium-doped fiber amplifier enabling gain equalization

  • Author

    Ip, Ezra ; Ming-Jun Li ; Bennett, K. ; Korolev, Albert ; Koreshkov, K. ; Wood, W. ; Montero, C. ; Linares, Jorge

  • Author_Institution
    NEC Labs. America, Princeton, NJ, USA
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    17-21 March 2013
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    We measure the modal gain and noise figure characteristics of a ring-doped few-mode erbium-doped fiber amplifier. We obtained 1 dB higher gain in LP11 than LP01 at an average of 12.5 dB per mode.
  • Keywords
    erbium; optical communication equipment; optical fibre amplifiers; gain equalization; gain figure characteristics; noise figure characteristics; ring-profile few-mode erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Erbium-doped fiber amplifiers; Gain; Gain measurement; Noise figure; Optical fiber amplifiers; Wavelength measurement;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC), 2013
  • Conference_Location
    Anaheim, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4799-0457-0
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6532510