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

Volume

1

fYear

1998

fDate

20-24 Sep 1998

Firstpage

37

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Communication, 1998. 24th European Conference on

Conference_Location

Madrid

Print_ISBN

84-89900-14-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ECOC.1998.732423

Filename

732423