Paper Info
Title
Cladding Pumped Multi-Core Fiber Amplifiers For Space Division Multiplexing
Abstract
We review the challenges of cladding pumped multi-core optical fiber amplifiers for application to space division multiplexing (SDM). Through numerical simulations, we investigate two fiber designs: the first one with a uniform cladding and the second one with an annular cladding to guide the pump. We compare the multi-core amplifier gain, noise figure and pumping efficiency in a WDM scenario. We present the fabricated fibers and summarize experimentally measured performance that shows gain>20 dB and NF<6 dB over the whole C-band. Finally, we examine scalability of the annular cladding design.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/ccece.2018.8447740
2018 IEEE CANADIAN CONFERENCE ON ELECTRICAL & COMPUTER ENGINEERING (CCECE)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA), optical amplifier, space division multiplexing (SDM), multi-core amplifier, spatially integrated amplifier, optical fiber, optical communications
Wavelength-division multiplexing,Fiber,Computer science,Noise figure,Electronic engineering,Cladding (metalworking),Erbium,Space division multiplexing,Scalability,Amplifier
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0840-7789
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sophie LaRochelle179.52
cang jin201.01
Charles Matte-Breton300.34
Younès Messaddeq4126.44