With the development of artificial intelligence, big data, cloud computing, Internet of Things, mobile electronics, and so on, the transmission capacity of the traditional optical fiber communication system carried by the rare earth ion-doped single-core single-mode fiber amplifier has gradually approached the limit of Shannon's law. It is necessary to develop a new material system to broaden the transmission capacity of the optical fiber communication system. Compared with rare earth ions, quantum dots(QDs) have a wide luminescence bandwidth and tunable wavelength, and the luminescence properties of QDs can be modulated by a variety of chemical means. QDs-doped optical amplifier shows broadband optical gain properties, which has attracted wide attention from academia and industry. In this context, this paper proposes to integrate chemically synthesized PbS/CdS core-shell QDs with low-loss polymer to obtain QDs -doped fiber amplifier(QDFA), realize tunable wavelength and broadband optical amplification in the near-infrared (NIR) communication band. This paper studies and reveals the factors and mechanisms affecting the continuity of polymer fiber. It proposes to reduce the additional pressure related to surface tension, contraction force during solidifying, the friction force by the inner wall of fiber core, and improve the traction force from the pumping by vacuum pump to obtain continuous optical fiber. By optimizing these factors, we obtained continuous fiber core based on heat curing PDMS and light curing NOA61 and NOA85 UV glue. Consequently, the QDFAs realize the highest gain of 6.5 dB, and gain bandwidth of more than 100 nm. The results of this paper will facilitate the development of quantum dot fiber optic devices and broadband optical communication technologies.
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