Hexagonal Cladding 19-core EDF for Improved Output Power of Cladding Pumped Amplification
Conference: ECOC 2024 - 50th European Conference on Optical Communication
09/22/2024 - 09/26/2024 at Frankfurt, Germany
Proceedings: ITG-Fb. 317: ECOC 2024
Pages: 4Language: englishTyp: PDF
Authors:
Maeda, Koichi; Takasaka, Shigehiro; Sugizaki, Ryuichi; Takahashi, Masanori
Abstract:
We fabricate a hexagonal cladding 19-core EDF to improve output power of cladding pumped amplification and confirm 1.1 dB higher output power of a circular cladding one. Output power improvement by hexagonal cladding is 0.7 dB based on normalized cladding pump power density.