Abstract

We designed and fabricated a ring-core Bi/Er co-doped fiber (RC-BEDF), and thus investigated the broad-spectrum amplification of orbital angular momentum (OAM) modes. The deviation from the average gain of the OAM₁ and OAM₂ modes enabled gains of <1.8 dB and <1.9 dB respectively, and the differential mode gain (DMG) between the two modes was <1.0 dB over 100 nm bandwidth (1525–1626 nm). In particular, the 3 dB bandwidth of the gain spectra exhibited 74 nm (1552–1626 nm) and 69 nm (1557–1626 nm), respectively. Furthermore, four beams of different wavelengths, i.e., 1525, 1560, 1590, and 1626 nm, were separately extracted from the broad spectra to detect the amplified modes, by which the interferograms of first- and second-order OAM modes were obtained. The amplified OAM mode purities of the wavelengths were all above 95%. Moreover, dual-channel combination of the OAM₁ mode at 1550 nm and OAM₂ mode at 1600 nm was amplified, which indicated realization of different-OAM-modes amplification with wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM). Herein, for the first time, we extended the C+L band OAM modes amplification to 1626 nm and achieved OAM multiplexed amplification of WDM signals. This ultra-broad-spectrum and ultra-low-DMG OAM amplification has been widely considered as a promising technology for long-haul mode division multiplexing and WDM fiber-optics communication systems and networks.

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