Amplification sharing of non-degenerate modes in an elliptical-core few-mode erbium-doped fiber

作者：Trinel Jean Baptiste^*; Quiquempois Yves; Le Rouge Antoine; Le Cocq Guillaume; Garcia Lionel; Morizur Jean Francois; Labroille Guillaume; Bigot Laurent

来源：Optics Express, 2016, 24(5): 4654-4661.

DOI：10.1364/OE.24.004654

We report on the study of a possible first step integration of mode division multiplexed optical component for single-mode fiber networks. State-of-the-art on few-mode erbium-doped fiber amplifiers is used to integrate the amplification function in a single component, which is expected to save energy in comparison to parallelized active components. So as to limit the impact of modal cross-talk, an elliptical-core few-mode erbium-doped fiber has been used to assemble an amplifier sharing setup for different single mode fibers, using non-degenerate modes. With this simple setup, we show the level of performances that can be reached for cross-talk, gain, differential modal gain and losses and discuss the ways to improve them for a possible integration in a real network.

• 出版日期2016-3-7