Title :
Multicore erbium-doped fiber amplifier
Author_Institution :
OFS Labs., Somerset, NJ, USA
Abstract :
A multicore erbium-doped fiber (MC-EDF) amplifier for simultaneous amplification in the 7-cores has been developed, and the gain and noise properties of individual cores are studied. For a pump power of 146 mW, the average gain achieved in the MC-EDF fiber was 30 dB, and noise figure was less than 4 dB. The net useful gain from the multicore-amplifler, after taking into consideration of all the passive losses, was about 23-27 dB. Pump induced ASE noise transfer between the neighboring channel was found to be negligible.
Keywords :
erbium; optical fibre amplifiers; optical pumping; Er; MC-EDF fiber; gain properties; multicore erbium-doped fiber amplifier; multicore-amplifler; noise figure; noise properties; passive losses; power 146 mW; pump induced ASE noise transfer; pump power;
Conference_Titel :
Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference (OECC), 2012 17th
Conference_Location :
Busan
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-0976-9
Electronic_ISBN :
2166-8884
DOI :
10.1109/OECC.2012.6276533
