Demonstration of Cladding-Pumped Six-Core Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifier

被引:27
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作者
Chen, Haoshuo [1 ]
Fontaine, Nicolas K. [1 ]
Ryf, Roland [1 ]
Jin, Cang [2 ]
Huang, Bin [1 ,4 ]
Shang, Kuanping [1 ,5 ]
Essiambre, Rene-Jean [1 ]
Wang, Lixian [2 ]
Hayashi, Tetsuya [3 ]
Nagashima, Takuji [3 ]
Sasaki, Takashi [3 ]
Messaddeq, Younes [2 ]
LaRochelle, Sophie [2 ]
机构
[1] Alcatel Lucent, Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ 07733 USA
[2] Univ Laval, COPL, Quebec City, PQ G1V 0A6, Canada
[3] Sumitomo Elect Ind, Yokohama, Kanagawa 2448588, Japan
[4] Univ Cent Florida Orlando, CREOL, Orlando, FL 32816 USA
[5] Univ Calif Davis, Dept Elect & Comp Engn, Davis, CA 95616 USA
基金
加拿大自然科学与工程研究理事会;
关键词
Coherent transmission; multiplexing; optical amplifier; DIVISION MULTIPLEXED TRANSMISSION; FEW-MODE EDFA; MULTICORE FIBER; INTERCORE CROSSTALK; SYSTEMS; LASERS; EMISSION; OPTICS; LIGHT;
D O I
10.1109/JLT.2016.2515053
中图分类号
TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
学科分类号
0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
We demonstrate cladding-pumped six-core Erbium-doped fiber amplifiers (EDFAs) using two different pump coupling schemes: edge-coupled and side-coupled pumping, where a single multimode laser diode can be applied to pump all cores. Using two in-line cladding-pumped EDFAs at the input and output of a 31-km coupled-six-core fiber, we realized 465-km space-division multiplexing and wavelength division multiplexing transmission in a recirculating loop and achieved a spectral efficiency of 18 bits/s/Hz. Through side-coupled pumping, the cladding-pumped six-core EDFA produced >18-dBm output power per core and had <6-dB noise figure across the C-band.
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页码:1654 / 1660
页数:7
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