Title :
Cladding-pumped Er/Yb-doped multi-element fiber amplifier for C+L band operations
Author :
Jain, Sonal ; May-Smith, T.C. ; Sahu, J.K.
Author_Institution :
Optoelectron. Res. Centre, Univ. of Southampton, Southampton, UK
Abstract :
A cladding-pumped multi-element fiber comprising 4-Er/Yb-doped signal fibers and single multimode pump fiber has been used to demonstrate a C+L split-band amplifier. The signal fibers were cascaded to provide >20dB gain over 80nm bandwidth.
Keywords :
optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre cladding; optical pumping; C+L band operations; C+L split band amplifier; Er/Yb-doped signal fibers; cladding pumped Er/Yb-doped multielement fiber amplifier; gain 200 dB; single multimode pump fiber; size 80 nm; Bandwidth; Gain; L-band; Noise measurement; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber communication;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2014
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-5575-2994-7
DOI :
10.1364/OFC.2014.M2J.3
