Applicability of photonic crystal fiber with uniform air-hole structure to high-speed and wide-band transmission over conventional telecommunication bands

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 27, Issue 23, 2009, Pages 5410-5416

  Matsui, Takashi ^a   Nakajima, Kazuhide ^a   Fukai, Chisato ^a  

^a NTT Access Network Service Systems Laboratories   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dispersion compensation; Distributed Raman amplifier (DRA); Finite element method; Low nonlinearity; Photonic crystal fiber (PCF)

Indexed keywords

40 GBIT/S TRANSMISSION; CHANNEL POWER; DISPERSION COMPENSATING FIBERS; DISTRIBUTED RAMAN AMPLIFICATION; DISTRIBUTED RAMAN AMPLIFIER (DRA); EFFECTIVE AREA; HIGH-SPEED; HIGHER-ORDER MODES; HOLE STRUCTURES; LARGE DISPERSION; LARGE EFFECTIVE AREAS; LOW BENDING LOSS; LOW NONLINEARITY; MACRO-BENDING LOSS; NON-LINEARITY; NONLINEARITY REDUCTION; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBER (PCF); SINGLE MODE; TELECOMMUNICATION BANDS; W-SHAPED INDEX PROFILE; WAVELENGTH RANGES; WAVELENGTH-DIVISION MULTIPLEXING SYSTEM; WIDEBAND TRANSMISSIONS;

AMPLIFICATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTAL WHISKERS; DISPERSION COMPENSATION; DISPERSIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; FIBERS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LASER PULSES; LIGHT MODULATION; MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS; MICROWAVE ANTENNAS; MULTIPLEXING; MULTIPLEXING EQUIPMENT; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

HOLEY FIBERS;

EID: 70350512826     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2009.2030901     Document Type: Article

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