[MC2] Fiber Amplifiers

[MC2-3] Propagation Direction Interleaved Cladding Pumped 19-core EDFA

〇Koichi Maeda, Shigehiro Takasaka, Kohei Kawasaki, Kazuaki Yoshioka, Ryuichi Sugizaki, Masayoshi Tsukamoto (Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd., Japan)

Keywords:Fiber based devices for space division multiplexing

Core-to-core crosstalk of cladding pumped 19-core EDFA is reduced to about half by applying propagation-direction interleaving technique. Amplification characteristics for backward pumped signals are almost the same as forward pumped ones.