• DocumentCode
    2158457
  • Title

    First demonstration of multimode amplifier for spatial division multiplexed transmission systems

  • Author

    Yung, Y. ; Alam, S. ; Li, Z. ; Dhar, A. ; Giles, D. ; Giles, I. ; Sahu, J. ; Grüner-Nielsen, L. ; Poletti, F. ; Richardson, D.J.

  • Author_Institution
    Optoelectron. Res. Centre, Univ. of Southampton, Southampton, UK
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    18-22 Sept. 2011
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    We present the first systematic study of a two-moded erbium-doped fiber amplifier, and identified its performance trends. By optimizing dopant distribution and pump modes we achieved over 22dB gain for both LP01 and LP11-modes.
  • Keywords
    erbium; light transmission; optical fibre amplifiers; optical pumping; space division multiplexing; dopant distribution; multimode amplifier; pump modes; spatial division multiplexed transmission; two-moded erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Gain; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber networks; Optical fiber polarization;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communication (ECOC), 2011 37th European Conference and Exhibition on
  • Conference_Location
    Geneva
  • ISSN
    Pending
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-1918-9
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6065945