Title :
Design and fabrication of locally dispersion-flattened large effective area fibers
Author :
Liu, Yanming ; Mattingly, William B. ; Smith, David K. ; Lacy, Claude E. ; Cline, Jerrold A. ; De Liso, Evelyn M.
Author_Institution :
Telecommun. Products Div., Corning Inc., NY, USA
Abstract :
We have designed and fabricated single-mode non-zero dispersion-shifted fibers with locally flattened dispersion slope (⩽0.035 ps/nm2.km) and large effective area (~70 μm 2) in the 1550-nm window, suitable for long-distance high bit-rate dense WDM transmissions
Keywords :
optical design techniques; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre fabrication; refractive index; wavelength division multiplexing; 1550 nm; 1550-nm window; large effective area; locally dispersion-flattened large effective area fiber design; locally dispersion-flattened large effective area fiber fabrication; locally flattened dispersion slope; long-distance high bit-rate dense WDM transmissions; single-mode non-zero dispersion-shifted fibers; Chromatic dispersion; Costs; Doped fiber amplifiers; Fabrication; Optical design; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fibers; Optical waveguides; System performance; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 1998. 24th European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Madrid
Print_ISBN :
84-89900-14-0
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.1998.732423
