Title :
New technique for reducing the splice loss to dispersion compensating fiber
Author :
Edvold, Bent ; Grüner-Nielsen, Lars
Author_Institution :
Lycom A/S, Broendby, Denmark
Abstract :
A new technique for reducing the splice loss between dispersion compensating and standard single mode fiber is presented. 0.4 dB splice loss is obtained by introducing an intermediate fiber between the dispersion compensating fiber (DCF) and single mode fiber (SMF). By using a specially designed intermediate fiber, the overall splice loss has been reduced from 0.7-0.8 dB to only 0.4 dB. This is to our knowledge the best splice loss between DCF and SMF.
Keywords :
compensation; optical fibre communication; optical fibre couplers; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre fabrication; optical fibre losses; 0.4 dB; 0.7 to 0.8 dB; best splice loss; dB splice los; dispersion compensating fiber; intermediate fiber; overall splice loss; single mode fiber; splice loss reduction technique; standard single mode fiber;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 1996. ECOC '96. 22nd European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Oslo, Norway
Print_ISBN :
82-423-0418-1
