Silica Optical Fiber Technology for Devices and Components: Design, Fabrication, and International Standards

Index

air silica holey fiber, ASHF 15, 321

bend loss edge wavelength, λ_ble 334

bending loss, α_bend 334

effective index guiding, EIG 324

endless single mode fiber 325

fabrication 323

fundamental space filling mode, FSM 327

large mode area, LMA 331

normalized frequency 328

anti Stokes shift 235

attenuation coefficient, a(λ) 2, 54, 65, 243

beat length, L_p 283

bend insensitive single mode fiber 66, 68, 71, 78

Bessel function, Jm(x), Km(x) 24, 25

birefringence, B 283

boundary conditions 26

bow-tie fiber 292, 301

Brillouin scattering 235, 253

bandwidth, Δv_B 236

frequency shift, v_B 236, 254

gain spectra 256, 260, 264

longitudinal acoustic veolocity, V_L 254

peak gain, g_B 236, 254

threshold power, 236

bubbler 86

cascaded boundary method, CBM 378

characteristic equation 29

cladding 24, 25

coarse wavelength division multiplexing, CWDM 133, 135, 136

collapse 99, 102

communication bands, O, E, S, C, L, U 10, 66

confinement loss 345

conventional single mode fiber see standard single mode fiber

core 24

cross phase modulation, XPM 145

cut-off shifted single mode fiber 66, 68, 137

cut-off wavelength, λ_c 52

3dB bandwidth 207

defect engineering 363

dense wavelength division multiplexing, DWDM 133, 134, 135

deposition efficiency 95

deposition rate 96

differential Group Delay, DGD 62

dispersion compensating fiber, DCF 133, 139, 161, 338

dispersion compensating module, DCM 133

dispersion compensation ...