Methods and optical fibers that decrease pulse degradation resulting from random chromatic dispersion

Patent · 01 March 2004

OSTI ID:1174752

Chertkov, Michael; Gabitov, Ildar

The present invention provides methods and optical fibers for periodically pinning an actual (random) accumulated chromatic dispersion of an optical fiber to a predicted accumulated dispersion of the fiber through relatively simple modifications of fiber-optic manufacturing methods or retrofitting of existing fibers. If the pinning occurs with sufficient frequency (at a distance less than or are equal to a correlation scale), pulse degradation resulting from random chromatic dispersion is minimized. Alternatively, pinning may occur quasi-periodically, i.e., the pinning distance is distributed between approximately zero and approximately two to three times the correlation scale.

• Research Organization: The Regents Of University Of California, Oakland, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-36
• Assignee: University Of California, The Regents Of
• Patent Number(s): 6,701,050
• Application Number: 09/974,717
• OSTI ID: 1174752
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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