Title : 
Advances in transmission over a few-mode fiber: State of the art and research results
         
        
        
            Author_Institution : 
NEC Labs. America, Princeton, NJ, USA
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
We investigate the design of erbium-doped fiber amplifiers for few-mode fiber supporting two mode groups at the signal wavelength. We investigate the achievable gain region, gain equalization and system sensitivity to pump perturbations.
         
        
            Keywords : 
erbium; optical communication equipment; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre communication; optical pumping; achievable gain region; erbium doped fiber amplifier; few mode fiber transmission; gain equalization; pump perturbation sensitivity; signal wavelength; Doping; Erbium-doped fiber amplifiers; Gain; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber theory; Refractive index;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Optical Communications (ECOC), 2012 38th European Conference and Exhibition on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Amsterdam