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Specialty Optical Fibers Handbook
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Specialty Optical Fibers Handbook

by Alexis Mendez, T. F. Morse
December 2006
Intermediate to advanced
840 pages
28h 20m
English
Academic Press
Content preview from Specialty Optical Fibers Handbook
Chapter 5
Single-Mode Fibers
for Communications
Robert Lingle, Jr., David W. Peckham, Kai H. Chang,
and Alan McCurdy
OFS Corporate R&D, Norcross, Georgia
5.1 INTRODUCTION
System performance can be maximized and total system cost savings can be
realized by choosing an optical fiber design optimized for a particular system
application. The cabled optical fiber that forms the backbone of the physical
layer is one part of an optical transmission line that also comprises amplifiers
and dispersion compensation modules (DCMs). The designs of the amplifier,
DCM, and cabled transmission fiber are not mutually independent, and an
integrated view of the transmission ...
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