Few mode Er(3+)-doped fiber with micro-structured core for mode division multiplexing in the C-band
| Autor: | Karen Delplace, Géraud Bouwmans, Yves Quiquempois, Hicham El Hamzaoui, Laurent Bigot, Antoine Le Rouge, Guillaume Le Cocq, Mohamed Bouazaoui |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Materials science Multi-mode optical fiber business.industry Single-mode optical fiber Physics::Optics Polarization-maintaining optical fiber Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics Optics Wavelength-division multiplexing Dispersion-shifted fiber business Plastic optical fiber Photonic-crystal fiber |
| Zdroj: | Optics express. 21(25) |
| ISSN: | 1094-4087 |
| Popis: | Design and experimental characterization of Er(3+)-doped fiber amplifiers supporting 6 spatial modes in wavelength division multiplexing regime are reported. The study is first focused on Er(3+)-doped circular ring-structured profiles accessible with conventional fiber manufacturing techniques. However, these fiber designs, optimized for gain equalization, prove to be difficult to obtain experimentally. So as to go beyond these limits, an alternative approach based on a "pixelated" Er(3+)-doped core is proposed. Several possible designs are theoretically investigated and a first fabrication of micro-structured fiber is presented. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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