New fibers for ultra-high capacity transport

Optical Fiber Technology

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 495-502

  Sillard, Pierre ^a  

^a Draka Comteq France SAS   (France)

Author keywords

Attenuation; Effective area; Optical fiber communications; Optical fiber design; Space division multiplexing

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; OPTICAL FIBERS; SILICA; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; SPACE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS;

ATTENUATION; COHERENT DETECTION; CURRENT PERFORMANCE; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING TECHNIQUES; EFFECTIVE AREA; OPTICAL FIBER DESIGNS; SILICA-BASED FIBERS; SPACE DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

OPTICAL FIBER COMMUNICATION;

EID: 80255134526     PISSN: 10685200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yofte.2011.07.002     Document Type: Article

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