All-fiber spatial and wavelength gain-flattening of few-mode EDFA via mode selective coupler

Y Zeng, C Zhang, S Zhang, Y Fang, X Huang… - Optics & Laser …, 2025 - Elsevier
The mode division multiplexing (MDM) technique together with wavelength division
multiplexing (WDM) shows the great prospect to solve the capacity crunch of current …

Experimental investigation on transmission system of dual-polarization mode-division-multiplexing signals with few-mode erbium-doped fiber amplifiers

W Yan, B Wu, X Jiang, C Gao, F Wen, K Qiu - Optics Communications, 2023 - Elsevier
The transmission capacity of optical fiber communication can be effectively improved by the
combination of dual-polarization (DP) high-order modulation format with mode division …

Design of a few-mode erbium-ytterbium co-doped polymer optical waveguide amplifier with low differential modal gain

X Zhang, J Yan, C Wang, T Sun, Z Cao… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mode-division multiplexing (MDM) is a new method of space-division multiplexing (SDM)
that can break through the limitation of single-mode transmission capacity and greatly …

Gain equalization for few-mode erbium-doped fiber amplifiers via strong mode coupling

Y Liu, Z Yang, X Wang, Y Jung, L Zhang - Applied Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Featured Application Optical fiber transmission. Abstract Few-mode erbium-doped fiber
amplifiers (FM-EDFAs) are one of the most important optical subsystems for successful …

Experimental evaluation on OSNR and DMG performance of cascade FM-EDFA systems by equivalent input spectrum method

X Jiang, B Wu - Optics & Laser Technology, 2023 - Elsevier
An all-fiber few-mode erbium-doped fiber amplifier (FM-EDFA) is constructed by the
integration of few-mode isolator wavelength division multiplexers (FM-IWDMs), which act as …

Investigation of the structural environment and chemical bonding of fluorine in Yb-doped fluorosilicate glass optical fibres

M Cavillon, B Faugas, J Zhao, C Kucera… - The Journal of Chemical …, 2019 - Elsevier
Fluorosilicate glass optical fibres are interesting hosts for rare-earth ions. When doped with
ytterbium, for example, such fibres exhibit unique and beneficial fluoride-like spectroscopic …

Rigorous FM-EDF design with an oversized two-layer erbium ion distribution for C-band DMG mitigation

Y Zeng, Y Fang, Y Qin, O Xu, J Li, S Fu - JOSA B, 2021 - opg.optica.org
We present a rigorous design of few-mode erbium doping fiber (FM-EDF) with an oversized
two-layer erbium ion distribution at the central region with effective differential modal gain …

Modal gain characteristics of few-mode erbium-doped fiber amplifiers with pump mode beating

X Jiang, B Wu, X Jiang, F Wen, K Qiu - Optics & Laser Technology, 2025 - Elsevier
Using the linear polarization (LP) mode decomposition method, we theoretically analyze the
beat effect between the same polarization components of the vector pump modes and …

Few-mode erbium-doped fiber amplifier based on a multi-inclusions core optical fiber

JB Trinel, J Yammine, G Le Cocq, G Bouwmans… - Optics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
In this work, we demonstrate and evaluate a new design of micro-structured core erbium-
doped few-mode fiber to be used as optical amplifier in the context of mode-division …

A 6-mode pre-amplifier for turbulence-resistant free-space optical communication

P Zhang, H Yu, W Wu, S He, Y Wang, D Tian… - Optics …, 2025 - Elsevier
A few-mode pre-amplifier with high gain and high coupling efficiency was suitable for the
turbulence-resistant free-space optical (FSO) communication. Here, we first built and …