• DocumentCode
    1498338
  • Title

    Dispersion slope equaliser using bend-induced positive dispersion slope in coiled pure-silica fibre

  • Author

    Kato, M. ; Yoshizawa, N. ; Sugie, T. ; Okamoto, K.

  • Author_Institution
    NTT Photonics Labs., Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp., Ibaraki, Japan
  • Volume
    37
  • Issue
    11
  • fYear
    2001
  • fDate
    5/24/2001 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    680
  • Lastpage
    682
  • Abstract
    The dispersion slope of a dispersion-shifted fibre has been successfully equalised by using a bend-induced positive dispersion slope in a singlemode fibre. We realised the bent fibre dispersion slope equaliser by using a 1.3 μm zero-dispersion pure silica core fibre (PSM). This equaliser provides a dispersion slope of -12.54 ps/nm2 /km in the 1.5 μm region
  • Keywords
    equalisers; optical communication equipment; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; silicon compounds; 1.3 mum; 1.5 mum; SiO2; bend-induced positive dispersion slope; bent fibre dispersion slope equaliser; coiled pure-silica fibre; dispersion slope; dispersion slope equaliser; dispersion-shifted fibre; equaliser; singlemode fibre; zero-dispersion pure silica core fibre;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/el:20010481
  • Filename
    926438