The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 23, 2001
Filed:
Jul. 08, 1999
Micro Therapeutics, Inc., Irvine, CA (US);
Abstract
It is the objective of the present invention to resolve the limitations on transmission capacity and distance in a system by means of a simple design, through the provision of a means for restraining the deterioration in transmission characteristics that is the result of accumulation over the entire system of third order dispersion in the optical fiber. In the present invention, there is provided an optical fiber transmission path in which positive dispersion fibers,, and,and negative dispersion fibers,(referred to as optical fibers hereinafter), which have at least second and third order dispersion of mutually opposite signs, are combined. In addition, the optical fiber is disposed so that the average third order dispersion value on the transmission path overall is reduced, and so the length of each optical fiber is sufficiently smaller than the square root of the product of the second order dispersion length, which is determined from the second order dispersion value of the optical fiber and the pulse width of the signal, and the non-linear length, which is determined from the average power of the signal within the optical fiber and the optical fiber nonlinear coefficient.