Title :
Crosstalk characteristics of a 100 km-long spliced polarisation-maintaining optical fibre
Author :
Sasaki, Yutaka ; Tajima, Katsubumi ; Tsubokawa, Makoto ; Suzuki, Kenji
Author_Institution :
NTT Ibaraki Electr. Commun. Lab.
fDate :
5/12/1988 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
Crosstalk of -10.1 dB in a 100 km-long spliced polarisation-maintaining optical fibre has been achieved at 1.56 μm wavelength. The fibre has been constructed from 14 125 μm-diameter PANDA fibres, with an average modal birefringence of 4.8×10-4 , by conventional arc-fusion splice techniques. An average transmission loss of 0.37 dB/km, including the splice loss, has been obtained at 1.56 μm wavelength
Keywords :
crosstalk; light polarisation; optical fibres; optical links; optical losses; 1.56 micron; 100 km; PANDA fibres; arc-fusion splice techniques; crosstalk; modal birefringence; splice loss; spliced polarisation-maintaining optical fibre; transmission loss;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
