title: Cladding-pumped erbium-doped multicore fiber amplifier.
abstract: A cladding pumped multicore erbium-doped fiber amplifier for simultaneous amplification of 6 channels is demonstrated. Peak gain over 32 dB has been obtained at a wavelength of 1560 nm and the bandwidth measured at 20-dB gain was about 35 nm. Numerical modeling of cladding pumped multicore erbium-doped amplifier was also performed to study the properties of the amplifier. The results of experiment and simulation are found to be in good agreement.
authors.affiliation: OFS Laboratories, 19 Schoolhouse Road, Somerset, New Jersey 08873, USA. kabedin@ofsoptics.com
authors.forename: K S
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Abedin
authors.forename: T F
authors.initials: TF
authors.lastname: Taunay
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fishteyn
authors.forename: D J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: DiGiovanni
authors.forename: V R
authors.initials: VR
authors.lastname: Supradeepa
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Fini
authors.forename: M F
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Yan
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.forename: E M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Monberg
authors.forename: F V
authors.initials: FV
authors.lastname: Dimarcello
mesh_terms: D000669:Amplifiers, Electronic; D017076:Computer-Aided Design; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D004871:Erbium / Q000737:chemistry*; D005336:Fiber Optic Technology / Q000295:instrumentation*; D053844:Lasers, Solid-State
chemical_list: D004871:Erbium