A uniform ion doping air-hole-assisted FM-EDF for low differential modal gain

Z Li, L Pei, J Wang, J Zheng, W Xu, T Ning, J Li - Optical Fiber Technology, 2023 - Elsevier
An air-hole-assisted few-mode erbium-doped fiber (AH-FM-EDF) with a uniform erbium ion
doping profile is proposed for gain equalization. By introducing the central air hole, the …

A multi-layer erbium-doped air-hole-assisted few-mode fiber with ultra-low differential modal gain

Z Li, L Pei, J Zheng, J Wang, W Xu, T Ning, J Li - Photonics, 2022 - mdpi.com
The air-hole assisted few-mode fiber (AH-FMF) enables modal intensity balance and offers a
profound prospect in gain equalization with the combination of adaptive ion doping. In this …

Design of few-mode erbium-doped fiber with a low differential modal gain and weak coupling based on layered doping

Q Zhao, L Pei, J Tang, J Wang, J Zheng, J Li, T Ning - Applied Optics, 2023 - opg.optica.org
A step index few-mode erbium-doped fiber (FM-EDF) for mode gain equalization is
designed and proposed in this paper, which uses the layered-doping method to reduce the …

Few-mode erbium-doped fiber with trench and weak coupling for mode gain equalization based on layered-doping technology

Q Zhao, J Tang, Y Xie, L Feng, T Dou - Applied Optics, 2023 - opg.optica.org
A few-mode erbium-doped fiber (FM-EDF) with a step refractive index and trench structure is
designed and proposed to realize the modal gain equalization of a few-mode erbium-doped …

Demonstration of a ring-core few-mode erbium-doped fiber for mode gain equalization based on layered doping

Q Zhao, L Pei, J Zheng, J Wang, Y Xie, J Li, T Ning - JOSA B, 2022 - opg.optica.org
A ring-core few-mode erbium-doped fiber (FM-EDF) with step refractive index is designed
and proposed to realize the modal gain equalization of the amplifier. The layered-doping …

Gain equalization for few-mode erbium-doped fiber amplifiers via strong mode coupling

Y Liu, Z Yang, X Wang, Y Jung, L Zhang - Applied Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Featured Application Optical fiber transmission. Abstract Few-mode erbium-doped fiber
amplifiers (FM-EDFAs) are one of the most important optical subsystems for successful …

Rigorous FM-EDF design with an oversized two-layer erbium ion distribution for C-band DMG mitigation

Y Zeng, Y Fang, Y Qin, O Xu, J Li, S Fu - JOSA B, 2021 - opg.optica.org
We present a rigorous design of few-mode erbium doping fiber (FM-EDF) with an oversized
two-layer erbium ion distribution at the central region with effective differential modal gain …

Hybrid-pumped few-mode erbium-doped fiber amplifier for gain equalization

Z Li, L Pei, J Wang, J Zheng, B Bai, R He… - IEEE Photonics …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Pump selection plays an important role in an FM-EDFA when the active fiber is determined
in an MDM system. In this letter, a hybrid-pumped FM-EDFA was proposed for low …

All-fiber few-mode erbium-doped fiber amplifier supporting six spatial modes

Z Zhang, C Guo, L Cui, Y Zhang, C Du, X Li - Chinese Optics Letters, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Using the few-mode erbium-doped fiber (FM-EDF) with a simple two-layer erbium-doped
structure, we demonstrate an all-fiber FM-EDF amplifier. The gain equalization among the …

Modal gain equalization of 18 modes using a single-trench ring-core EDFA

A Gaur, V Rastogi - JOSA B, 2018 - opg.optica.org
The few-mode erbium-doped fiber amplifier (FM-EDFA) is a key component of a few-mode-
fiber-based optical communication system to allow the simultaneous amplification of all …