Erbium-doped multi-element fiber amplifiers for space-division multiplexing operations

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作者
Jain, S. [1 ]
May-Smith, T. C. [1 ]
Dhar, A. [1 ]
Webb, A. S. [1 ]
Belal, M. [1 ]
Richardson, D. J. [1 ]
Sahu, J. K. [1 ]
Payne, D. N. [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Southampton, Optoelect Res Ctr, Southampton SO17 1BJ, Hants, England
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英国工程与自然科学研究理事会;
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10.1364/OL.38.000582
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O43 [光学];
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070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
Erbium-doped multi-element fiber (MEF) amplifiers have been fabricated to simultaneously amplify multiple transmission channels. MEF devices comprise of multiple single-core fibers (elements) combined in a common coating, with each element working as a single fiber in isolation. MEFs containing 3-elements and 7-elements have been fabricated and characterized. Each element of the fabricated MEFs provides nearly 32 dB of gain with a noise figure of <5 dB for an input signal level of -23 dBm at 1530 nm. Different permutations of element pairs within the MEFs were checked for crosstalk and none was detected, confirming the simultaneous multi-channel amplification capabilities of MEFs. (C) 2013 Optical Society of America
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页码:582 / 584
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