• DocumentCode
    3528985
  • 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
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    24-28 Feb. 2008
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • 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
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/OFC.2008.4528645
  • Filename
    4528645