Er Doped Fibers

Lasers & Amplifiers Fibers

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Overview

Ideal for C and L Band amplifiers

The amplification of optical transmission signals is enabled through our high efficiency Erbium doped fibers. Our wide range of Erbium doped optical fibers allows for tailored optical amplifiers (EDFAs) performance based on your requirements.
iXblue’s Erbium Doped Fibers (EDF) products have been optimized to fulfill the exigency of high efficiency and low noise EDFAs in the C & L bands.

For hundreds watt operation, iXblue offers double clad Erbium fibers with 30 to 100 µm core diameter.

Custom versions, from single clad up to triple clad or even multicore Erbium doped fiber are also available.

Highlights

Benefits & Features

  • Low noise figure & flat gain shape
  • High efficiency
  • Low splice loss
  • Highly consistent spectroscopy
  • 80 µm reduced cladding on request
  • PM Panda structure

Applications

  • 1.5 µm lasers and amplifiers
  • EDFA
  • Fiber lasers
  • Small footprint amplifier

Main Specifications

Datasheet

Products

Polarization Maintaining (PM)
Product Specification Datasheet
Non-PM types
IXF-EDF-FGC-980-L1 C Band
4 dB/m absorption at 1530 nm
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IXF-EDF-FGC-980-L2 C Band
5 dB/m absorption at 1530 nm
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IXF-EDF-FGC-980-L3 C Band
6 dB/m absorption at 1530 nm
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IXF-EDF-FGC-1480 C Band
8 dB/m absorption at 1530 nm
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IXF-EDF-FGL-L1 C & L Band
22.5 dB/m absorption at 1530 nm
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IXF-EDF-FGL-L2 C & L Band
27.5 dB/m absorption at 1530 nm
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IXF-EDF-FGL-L3 C & L Band
35 dB/m absorption at 1530 nm
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IXF-EDF-FGL-80 C & L Band
27.5 dB/m absorption at 1530 nm
80 µm cladding diameter
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IXF-EDF-SHD-L1 Ase Source
12 dB/m absorption at 1530 nm
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IXF-EDF-HD Highly Doped
75 dB/m absorption at 1530 nm
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PM types
IXF-EDF-FGC-980-PM C Band
5.5 dB/m absorption at 1530 nm
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IXF-EDF-FGC-1480-PM C Band
8 dB/m absorption at 1530 nm
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IXF-EDF-FGL-PM-L1 C & L Band
18 dB/m absorption at 1530 nm
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IXF-EDF-FGL-PM-L2 C & L Band
24 dB/m absorption at 1530 nm
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IXF-EDF-FGL-PM-L3 C & L Band
30 dB/m absorption at 1530 nm
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IXF-EDF-HD-PM Highly Doped
75 dB/m absorption at 1530 nm
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Erbium Rad Hard Fibers
IXF-RAD-AMP-1 TRL 9
Rad Hard Space Grade
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IXF-RAD-AMP-2 New generation
Rad Hard Space Grade
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IXF-RAD-AMP-2-PM PM-type
Rad Hard Space Grade
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IXF-RAD-AMP-3 State-of-the-art
Rad Hard Space Grade
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Double Clad Fibers
IXF-2CF-ER-O-30-130-010 30 µm core diameter
130 µm clad diameter
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Radiation tolerant frequency comb fiber laser for space applications

  • Radiation tolerant frequency comb fiber laser for space applications

    M. Lezius, D. Penka (Menlo System); G.Melin, T. Robin, B. Cadier (iXblue); J. Kuhnhenn, U. Weinand, R. Holzwarth (Fraunhofer INT)

    ICSO – SEPTEMBER 2022

    A radiation tolerant Erbium fiber based optical frequency comb has been developed and environmentally tested. The system remained operable after an accumulated dose of 1 kGy. The underlying femtosecond fiber oscillator and Erbium fiber amplifiers have been manufactured from speciality doped fibers. The fiber optic system has been assembled and packaged using low outgassing components in a flight representative package before it was irradiated under active operation in two stages a 500 kGy. The accelerated ageing with dose rates of 10 mGy/s in water was tested using the calibrated Cobalt 60 source of the ESA-ESTEC facilities. The comb laser remained fully functional while the oscillator lost up to 30% of output power after the full exposure to the accumulated dose of 1 kGy. The fiber amplifiers lost 5-7% of output power.

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