Optical Orbital Angular Momentum Amplifier Based on an Air-Hole Erbium-Doped Fiber

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作者
Jung, Yongmin [1 ]
Kang, Qiongyue [1 ]
Sidharthan, Raghuraman [2 ]
Ho, Daryl [2 ]
Yoo, Seongwoo [2 ]
Gregg, Patrick [3 ]
Ramachandran, Siddharth [3 ]
Alam, Shaif-Ul [1 ]
Richardson, David J. [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Southampton, Optoelect Res Ctr, Southampton SO17 1BJ, Hants, England
[2] Nanyang Technol Univ, Photon Inst, Sch Elect & Elect Engn, Singapore 639798, Singapore
[3] Boston Univ, Dept Elect & Comp Engn, Boston, MA 02215 USA
基金
英国工程与自然科学研究理事会;
关键词
Fiber devices and optical amplifiers; optical vortices; space-division multiplexing; FEW-MODE EDFA; HIGH-POWER; TRANSMISSION; AMPLIFICATION; ABSORPTION; DESIGN; LASERS; LIGHT;
D O I
10.1109/JLT.2017.2651145
中图分类号
TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
学科分类号
0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
We present for the first time broadband operation of an optical orbital angular momentum (OAM) erbium-doped fiber amplifier for lower order OAM modes based on an air-hole erbium-doped fiber designed and fabricated to provide significant mode splitting between the OAM vertical bar l vertical bar = 1 modes and the adjacent vector modes. Up to 15.7 dB gain is obtained using a cladding pumped amplifier configuration for OAM modes with topological charge vertical bar l vertical bar = 1 in the operational wavelength range 1545-1600 nm
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页码:430 / 436
页数:7
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