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Advanced Photonics Nexus
Vol. 4, Issue 1, 016007 (2025)

Mode-bases gain difference for different phase profiles in few-mode erbium-doped fiber amplifiers

Jie Zhang^1,2, Shecheng Gao^1,*, Wei Li³, Jiajing Tu¹..., Yanghua Xie¹, Cheng Du³, Weiping Liu¹ and Zhaohui Li^2,4|Show fewer author(s)

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¹Jinan University, College of Information Science and Technology, Department of Electronic Engineering, Guangzhou, China

²Sun Yat-Sen University, School of Electronics and Information Technology, State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies, Guangzhou, China

³Fiberhome Telecommunication Technologies Co. Ltd., Wuhan, China

⁴Southern Laboratory of Ocean Science and Engineering, Zhuhai, China

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Jie Zhang, Shecheng Gao, Wei Li, Jiajing Tu, Yanghua Xie, Cheng Du, Weiping Liu, Zhaohui Li, "Mode-bases gain difference for different phase profiles in few-mode erbium-doped fiber amplifiers," Adv. Photon. Nexus 4, 016007 (2025) Copy Citation Text

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