R & D, September 1st, 1999
Fiber Adds Capacity to Optical Networks
With the invention of Corning LEAF Optical Fiber, researchers at Corning Inc., Corning, N.Y., broke the bandwidth barrier by developing a fiber product that offers higher power handling capability, higher signal-to-noise ratio, longer amplifier spacing, and maximum multiplexing flexibility for high-speed networks greater than 50 km in length.
The single-mode, non-zero dispersion-shifted fiber (NZ-DSF) technology has a large effective area that operates in the 1,550 nm window while maintaining excellent band performance. Increasing the effective area ...
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