Title :
Performance of cladding-pumped few-mode EDFAs in optical space-division multiplexed systems
Author :
Hesham A. Youssef;Ziad A. El-Sahn
Author_Institution :
IT Department, Institute of Graduate Studies and Research, Alexandria University, 21526, Egypt
Abstract :
We report a cladding-pumped 10-modes EDFA with modal gain > 20 dB over the C-band, zero differential modal gain and ~9 dB noise figure. Further, we successfully demonstrate a BER below 10-10 at 400 Gb/s.
Keywords :
"Erbium-doped fiber amplifiers","Noise measurement","Bit error rate","Photonics","Gain"
Conference_Titel :
Photonics Conference (IPC), 2015
DOI :
10.1109/IPCon.2015.7323441
