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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 17, 2007
Filed:
Jan. 21, 2003
Yoshinori Yamamoto, Yokohama, JP;
Takatoshi Kato, Yokohama, JP;
Takashi Fujii, Yokohama, JP;
Tomoyuki Yokokawa, Yokohama, JP;
Yoshinori Yamamoto, Yokohama, JP;
Takatoshi Kato, Yokohama, JP;
Takashi Fujii, Yokohama, JP;
Tomoyuki Yokokawa, Yokohama, JP;
Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a compact dispersion compensator and the like. The dispersion compensator comprises a housing and an optical fiber coil. The optical fiber coil has a coiled part constituted by a dispersion-compensating optical fiber wound like a coil while being in a bundle state with its winding distortion substantially eliminated. The housing is filled with a resin surrounding the coiled part of the optical fiber coil, whereas the coiled part is held by the resin. The dispersion-compensating optical fiber constituting the optical fiber coil has a chromatic dispersion of −140 ps/nm/km or less at a wavelength of 1.55 μm, whereas the housing has a volume of 500 cmor less. This configuration allows the dispersion compensator to attain an accumulated chromatic dispersion of −1200 ps/nm/km or more but less than −600 ps/nm at a wavelength of 1.55 μm.