Title :
Er3+-doped fluorophosphate glass fiber with ultra low nonlinearity for suppressing four-wave-mixing in L-band EDFA
Author :
Aozasa, S. ; Mori, Alessandro ; Oikawa, K. ; Yamada, Makoto ; Ono, H. ; Kanbara, H. ; Naganuma, K.
Author_Institution :
NTT Photonics Labs., NTT Corp., Atsugi, Japan
Abstract :
We developed Er3+-doped fluorophosphate glass fiber with low nonlinearity. With an L-band EDFA employing the fiber the four-wave-mixing crosstalk was 10 dB less than when employing an Er3+-doped silica fiber with low nonlinearity.
Keywords :
glass fibres; multiwave mixing; optical crosstalk; optical fibre amplifiers; L-band EDFA; L-band erbium doped fiber amplifier; fluorophosphate glass fiber; four-wave-mixing crosstalk; fusion splice; ultra low nonlinearity; Crosstalk; Doped fiber amplifiers; Erbium; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Fiber nonlinear optics; Glass; L-band; Refractive index; Silicon compounds; Stimulated emission;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber communication/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2008. OFC/NFOEC 2008. Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-856-8
DOI :
10.1109/OFC.2008.4528645
