Title :
Cladding-Pumped L-Band Multicore EDFA with Reduced Power Consumption
Author :
Tsuchida, Yukihiro ; Maeda, Kumiko ; Watanabe, K. ; Saito, Takashi ; Takasaka, Shigehiro ; Tadakuma, Masateru ; Sugizaki, Ryuichi ; Ogoshi, H. ; Doi, Kohei ; Matsuura, Hiroshi ; Takeshima, Koki ; Tsuritani, Takehiro ; Morita, Itsuro
Author_Institution :
FITEL Photonics Lab., Furukawa Electr. Co., Ltd., Chiba, Japan
Abstract :
Seven-core MC-EDFA pumped with single MM-LD optimized for L-band is developed. Output power of 19 dBm for each core is realized between 1576-1603nm with 33% reduced power consumption.
Keywords :
erbium; optical fibre amplifiers; optical pumping; power consumption; cladding-pumped L-band multicore EDFA; erbium doped fiber amplifier; output power; reduced power consumption; seven-core MC-EDFA; wavelength 1576 nm to 1603 nm; Cladding-pumping; Multicore EDFA; Power Consumption;
Conference_Titel :
Photonics Society Summer Topical Meeting Series, 2014 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Montreal, QC
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-2766-1
DOI :
10.1109/SUM.2014.83
