Abstract
A multi-core erbium-doped fiber amplifier with three cores was demonstrated. By utilizing MC-EDF with low cross-talk of −30dB, two 10-Gbit/s signals were simultaneously amplified with gain of 15dB and power penalty of less than 1dB.
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