Power Conversion Efficiency Improvement of Single Pump LD Multiband Multicore EDFA by Using Bandpass Pump Splitter

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:
Takeshita, Hitoshi; Shimomura, Yusuke; Maeda, Wakako

Abstract:
We clarified that our developed bandpass pump splitter enables a 34.2% pump recycling effi-ciency of a C+L-band 7-core cladding-pumped EDFA with a single pump laser diode. We found that its improvement results in a 40.9% improvement in power conversion efficiency.