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[WH2-1]Recent Progress on Multi-core Fiber Amplifier

○Masaki Wada1, Taiji Sakamoto1, Takashi Matsui1, Kazuhide Nakajima1 (1.NTT Corporation)
We review the power-saving and component integration techniques for the weakly coupled multi-core erbium-doped fiber amplifier (MC-EDFA), which are important performance metrics for the practical deployment, and discuss the prospects for future improvements.