146λ× 6× 19-Gbaud wavelength-and mode-division multiplexed transmission over 10× 50-km spans of few-mode fiber with a gain-equalized few-mode EDFA

E Ip, MJ Li, K Bennett, YK Huang… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We demonstrate wavelength-and mode-division multiplexed transmission over a fiber re-
circulating loop comprising 50-km of low-DMGD few-mode fiber, and an optimized few-mode …

Powerful trade-off between DMG and gain characteristics in the l-band high-numerical aperture few-mode erbium-doped fiber amplifier

Q Qiu, Z Gu, L He, S Liu, X Zhao, X Yin, W Li… - Optics & Laser …, 2023 - Elsevier
We numerically and experimentally demonstrated a low different modal gain (DMG) 5-LP
modes l-band fiber amplifier by using an extremely simple fiber structure. The effect of fiber …

Characteristics of randomly coupled 12-core erbium-doped fiber amplifier

T Sakamoto, M Wada, S Aozasa… - Journal of lightwave …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A randomly coupled 12-core erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) operating in the C-or L-
band is investigated. We experimentally demonstrate that both C and L-band operation can …

Mode-and wavelength-division multiplexed transmission using all-fiber mode multiplexer based on mode selective couplers

SH Chang, HS Chung, R Ryf, NK Fontaine, C Han… - Optics express, 2015 - opg.optica.org
We propose all-fiber mode multiplexer composed of two consecutive LP_11 mode selective
couplers that allows for the multiplexing of LP_01 mode and two-fold degenerate LP_11 …

Cladding pumped randomly coupled 12-core erbium-doped fiber amplifier with low mode-dependent gain

M Wada, T Sakamoto, T Yamamoto… - journal of lightwave …, 2018 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate a randomly coupled 12-core erbium-doped fiber (EDF) based cladding
pumped optical amplifier. In this paper, we show that a randomly coupled multicore EDF …

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 …

M-type refractive index profile erbium-doped fiber for high-efficiency multicore EDFA

Z Gu, L He, X Yin, S Liu, W Li, Y Xing, N Dai, J Li - Optics Express, 2024 - opg.optica.org
Cladding-pumped multicore erbium-doped fiber is an important element for future spatial
division multiplexing (SDM) amplification. We propose an M-type erbium-doped multicore …

Mode-Dependent Gain Characteristic of Bent Coupled Multi-Core EDFA

R Imada, T Sakamoto, S Aozasa… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We investigated the impact of varying the structural parameters, the bending and twisting
conditions on the mode-dependent gain (MDG) in a coupled-multi-core erbium-doped fiber …

Strongly coupled few-mode erbium-doped fiber amplifiers with ultralow differential modal gain

Y Liu, X Wang, Z Yang, L Zhang, G Li - Optical Fiber Communication …, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Strongly Coupled Few-mode Erbium-doped Fiber Amplifiers with Ultralow Differential Modal
Gain Page 1 W4B.7.pdf OFC 2020 © OSA 2020 Strongly Coupled Few-mode Erbium-doped …

Full C-band Low Mode Dependent and Flat Gain Amplifier using Cladding Pumped Randomly Coupled 12-core EDF

M Wada, T Sakamoto, T Yamamoto… - 2017 European …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Template for Papers ECOC 2015 Page 1 Full C-band Low Mode Dependent and Flat Gain
Amplifier using Cladding Pumped Randomly Coupled 12-core EDF M. Wada, T. Sakamoto, T …