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Abstract:
A cladding-pumped 4-core erbium-doped fiber (4C-EDF) with a pedestal structure has been firstly, to the best of our knowledge, proposed and fabricated for space division multiplexing (SDM) amplification. The numerical simulation shows that the index-raised pedestal around the fiber core can improve power conversion efficiency (PCE) by enhancing pump power usage. Compared with conventional 4C-EDF, the 4C-EDF with a pedestal has a gain improvement of 4.5 dB and a PCE enhancement of 91.8%, according to the experimental results (pedestal fiber: 9.55%, conventional fiber: 4.98%). For a 6 dBm total input signal power at L-band and a 7.8 W pump power at 976 nm, the pedestal 4C-EDF shows an average gain of 25 dB and an average noise figure (NF) of 6.5 dB over all cores in the wavelength range of 1570.41 nm to 1610.87 nm. The core-to-core gain variation is less than 2 dB.
