Performance of Few-mode EDFAs in Optical Space-Division Multiplexed Communication Systems

Hesham A. Youssef, Ziad El-Sahn, Adel El-Zoghabi
2014 Asia Communications and Photonics Conference 2014   unpublished
We report a novel tailored ring-doped few-mode erbium doped fiber amplifier with mode-selective bidirectional pumping. We successfully demonstrate up to 10-spatial modes with zero differential modal gain, and a BER below 10 -10 at 100 Gb/s.
doi:10.1364/acpc.2014.ath3a.81 fatcat:3ywgjljf7bel3nlbhbn6xa2b3a