Title
Improved Optical Amplification Efficiency By Using Turbo Cladding Pumping Scheme For Multicore Fiber Optical Networks
Abstract
We realize a multicore erbium-doped fiber amplifier (MC-EDFA) with 2 dB optical gain improvement (average) by recycling the residual 0.98 mu m pump light from the MC-EDF output. Eight-channel per core wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) Nyquist PM-16QAM optical signal amplification is demonstrated over a 40-minute period. Furthermore, we demonstrate the proposed MC-EDFA's stability by using it to amplify a Nyquist PM-16QAM signal and evaluating the resulting Q-factor variation. We found that our scheme contributes to reducing the total power consumption of MC-EDFAs in spatial division multiplexing (SDM)/WDM networks by up to 33.5%.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1587/transcom.2018EBP3296
IEICE TRANSACTIONS ON COMMUNICATIONS
Keywords
Field
DocType
multicore-EDFA, cladding pumping, recycle, power consumption
Turbo,Fiber,Computer science,Electronic engineering,Cladding (metalworking),Multi-core processor,Power consumption,Distributed computing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
E102B
8
0916-8516
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.39
0
Authors
5