Latest Results and Future Perspectives on Few-Mode Erbium Doped Fiber Amplifiers

Space division multiplexing has generated a lot of interest during the last five years and motivated intensive work on multicore and few-mode fibers. Whereas some concepts like multimode waveguides and mode coupling have been re-visited for mode-division multiplexing, some new problems have been addressed, as is the case for multimode optical amplifiers. This paper recalls the general context of the work on Few-Mode Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifiers and reviews the main results reported so far on this topic. (C) 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.