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13 - Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Metallurgy and Materials

University of Southampton

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Output 101 of 326 in the submission

Article title

Erbium-doped multi-element fiber amplifiers for space-division multiplexing operations

Type

D - Journal article

DOI

10.1364/OL.38.000582

Title of journal

Optics Letters

Article number

Volume number

Issue number

First page of article

582

ISSN of journal

0146-9592

Year of publication

2013

URL

http://www.orc.soton.ac.uk/viewpublication.html?pid=5754

Number of additional authors

Additional information

Significance of output:

Spatial multiplexing remains the only option to satisfy accelerating internet demand. Doubling the number of fibres installed every two years is unattractive, so various multicore/multimode fibre designs have emerged. Our unique approach is borrowed from electrical multi-strand cable practice and is a strippable/separable array of miniature fibres in a common polymer jacket having similar diameter to a conventional fibre. Our invention (US2012314279) is already used by the two leading fibre laser companies (SPI Lasers, IPG) and here (funded by Programme Grant EP/I01196X/1, £7,288,218, 2010-16) has been applied to telecommunications fibres and amplifiers.

Interdisciplinary

Cross-referral requested

Research group

None

Proposed double-weighted

Double-weighted statement

Reserve for a double-weighted output

Non-English

English abstract