READ ME File For 'High spatial density 6-mode 7-core fiber amplifier for L-band operation' Dataset DOI: 10.5258/SOTON/D1225 ReadMe Author: Yongmin Jung, University of Southampton [OPTIONAL add ORCID ID] This dataset supports the publication: AUTHORS: YONGMIN JUNG, MASAKI WADA, KOHKI SHIBAHARA, SAURABH JAIN, IAN A. DAVIDSON, PRANABESH BARUA, JOHN R. HAYES, TAIJI SAKAMOTO, TAKAYUKI MIZUNO, YUTAKA MIYAMOTO, YUSUKE SASAKI, KUNIMASA SAITOH, KAZUHIDE NAKAJIMA, AND DVAID J. RICHARDSON TITLE: High spatial density 6-mode 7-core fiber amplifier for L-band operation JOURNAL: Journal of Lightwave Technology PAPER DOI IF KNOWN: This dataset contains: The raw data for individual figures The figures are as follows: Fig. 2 (b) The refractive index profile of core and (c) the shift in ASE spectra with different Er-doped fiber lengths for the centre core Fig. 3 (a) Averaged gain and NF performance of the 6M-7CF amplifier, (b) mode dependent gain and (c) inter-core crosstalk characteristics at 1600n. Fig. 5 Q-factors of the received signals after 60km 6M-7CF transmission Fig. 6 PCE vs RCMF of the proposed amplifier compared to previuosly reported SDM amplifier results Date of data collection: Aug. 2018- Dec. 2019 Information about geographic location of data collection: Licence: CC BY Related projects: This work was supported in part by the EPSRC funded ¡°Airguide Photonics¡± Programme Grant (EP/P030181/1), the EPSRC National Hub in High Value Photonic Manufacturing (EP/N00762X/1) and in part by NICT, Japan, as part of the "Innovative Optical Fibre and Communicaiton Technology for Exa-bit Era with SDM" program. Date that the file was created: Mar. 2020