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

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...

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Published in:Journal of lightwave technology 2016-04, Vol.34 (8), p.1654-1660
Main Authors: Haoshuo Chen, Fontaine, Nicolas K., Ryf, Roland, Cang Jin, Bin Huang, Kuanping Shang, Essiambre, Rene-Jean, Lixian Wang, Hayashi, Tetsuya, Nagashima, Takuji, Sasaki, Takashi, Messaddeq, Younes, LaRochelle, Sophie
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Language:English
Subjects:
coherent transmission
Couplings
Erbium-doped fiber amplifiers
Gain
Laser excitation
Multicore processing
multiplexing
optical amplifier
Power generation
Wavelength division multiplexing
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Summary: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
ISSN:0733-8724
1558-2213
DOI:10.1109/JLT.2016.2515053