Design and fabrication of erbium-doped fibers for optical amplifiers

Pauli Kiiveri; Simo K. T. Tammela

doi:10.1117/1.602579

1 July 2000 Design and fabrication of erbium-doped fibers for optical amplifiers

Pauli Kiiveri, Simo K. T. Tammela

Optical Engineering, Vol. 39, Issue 7, (July 2000). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.602579

Erbium-doped optical fibers are designed using the refractive index difference, fiber core diameter and Er concentration as parameters in the numerical calculations. The fibers are fabricated with modified chemical vapor deposition and solution doping techniques, which are described in detail. Preform and fiber parameters also measured at several laboratories participating in the European Community's COST 217 project are given and compared with the fiber design values. The produced Er fiber is utilized in prototype fiber amplifiers. The differential efficiency of an Al-doped Er fiber is measured to be 77%.

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Pauli Kiiveri and Simo K. T. Tammela "Design and fabrication of erbium-doped fibers for optical amplifiers," Optical Engineering 39(7), (1 July 2000). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.602579

Published: 1 July 2000

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