Yangtze Optical Fibre and Cable Company, Ltd.

Yuqing Cao

Jie Luo

TieJun Wang

Shuqiang Zhang

Qingrong Han

Raadj Matai

The invention relates to a low dispersion slope dispersion-shifted single-mode fiber for large capacity transmission comprising a core and a cladding. Said fiber is characterized in that said core has three to five core segments having different refractive index profiles, and said cladding has four to six cladding segments. The total dispersion slope of said fiber at 1550 nm is less than 0.060 ps/nm&#xb7;km, the zero dispersion wavelength is less than 1420 nm, the effective area ranges from 55 &#x3bc;mto 65 &#x3bc;m, and the dispersion in the region of 1530 nm&#x2dc;1565 nm ranges from 5.0 ps/nm&#xb7;km to 12.0 ps/nm&#xb7;km. The fiber has low dispersion slope, moderate dispersion, low attenuation, and excellent bend resistance performance. It is suitable for a high-speed (10 Gbits/s and 40 Gbits/s), large capacity, and long distance DWDM system. Therefore, not only the non-linear problem that fazes high-speed communication is solved effectively, but also the DWDM transmission at 10 Gbits/s can be realized within a wider wavelength range. In addition, low dispersion slope is advantageous for comprehensive management of dispersion, so that the requirement for long distance non-electric relay can be fulfilled.

Dispersion-shifted single-mode fiber having low dispersion slope for large capacity transmission

A high performance dispersion compensating optical fiber is provided. In one embodiment, the optical fiber includes a core layer and a cladding layer surrounding the core layer. The core layer includes five core sublayers wherein the &#x25a1;% of the first core sublayer is positive, and the &#x25a1;% of at least one of the other core sublayers is negative, the radius ranges of the respective core sublayers beginning outwardly from the first core sublayer are 0.6 to 0.8 &#x3bc;m, 1.0 to 1.2 &#x3bc;m, 1.6 to 2.0 &#x3bc;m, 5.0 to 6.0 &#x3bc;m, and 7.0 to 8.0 &#x3bc;m, respectively; the ranges of &#x25a1;% of the respective sublayers beginning outwardly from the first core sublayer are about 1.8 to 2.1%, 1.2 to 1.4%, 0.6 to 1%, &#x2212;0.4 to &#x2212;0.6% and 0.2 to 0.4%, and the cladding layer is a pure Silicon Dioxide glass layer.

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