• DocumentCode
    1025898
  • Title

    LED pulse distortion in single-mode fibres near the wavelength of zero dispersion

  • Author

    Christodoulides, Demetrios N. ; Saifi, M.A.

  • Author_Institution
    Bell Communications Research, Murray Hill, USA
  • Volume
    22
  • Issue
    19
  • fYear
    1986
  • Firstpage
    981
  • Lastpage
    982
  • Abstract
    We show that the broadening of LED pulses in single-mode fibres due to higher-order dispersive effects, which are significant near the wavelength of zero dispersion, is considerably less than that predicted on the basis of RMS theory.
  • Keywords
    fibre optics; light emitting diodes; optical dispersion; optical fibres; LED pulse distortion; higher-order dispersive effects; single-mode fibres; zero dispersion;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/el:19860671
  • Filename
    4256880