Title :
Few-mode multi-element fiber amplifier for mode division multiplexing
Author :
Jung, Yongmin ; Jain, Sonal ; May-Smith, T.C. ; Sahu, J.K. ; Alam, S.U. ; Richardson, D.J.
Author_Institution :
Optoelectron. Res. Centre, Univ. of Southampton, Southampton, UK
Abstract :
We present a 3-moded cladding-pumped multi-element fiber amplifier comprising 4 Er/Yb doped signal fibers and 1 multimode pump-delivery fiber with spatial multiplicity of 12. An average signal gain of 18dB and differential modal gain of 2-5dB are achieved.
Keywords :
optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre cladding; space division multiplexing; few mode cladding pumped multielement fiber amplifier; gain 18 dB; gain 2 dB to 5 dB; mode division multiplexing; multimode pump-delivery fiber; signal fiber doping; spatial multiplicity; Erbium; Gain; Multiplexing; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber networks;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2014 European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Cannes
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2014.6964020
