OPTICAL FIBER WITH ZERO DISPERSION WAVELENGTH SHIFTED TO SHORT WAVELENGTH REGION, AND OPTICAL TRANSMISSION LINE AND OPTICAL TRANSMISSION SYSTEM USING THE SAME

摘要

Disclosed is an optical fiber suitable for WDM system, particularly whose zero-dispersion wavelength is positioned in a short wavelength band less than 1,300 mm. In the optical fiber, dispersion has a positive value, not zero, at 1,310 nm, and a dispersion slope is positive at 1,550 rim with dispersion of 25 ps/nm-km or less. In addition, an effective sectional area is 65 µm2 or less at 1,310 rim, and 80 µm2 or less at 1,550 nm. Thus, though a transmission signal is Raman-amplified at a wavelength band of 1,300 to 1,700 nm, transmission characteristics are not deteriorated due to crosstalk between pump signals. In addition, since the optical fiber has smaller effective sectional area than a general single-mode optical fiber with having substantially the same dispersion feature, it gives better Raman gain efficiency than a general single-mode optical fiber.