Zero-mode dispersion in single-mode fibres

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Published 21/07/2012

Abstract

Near cutoff the loss of the LP11-mode in cladded optical fibres becomes very high in the presence of even slight bends. Singlemode operation can thus be achieved with zero-mode dispersion as well as zero material dispersion, thus promising enormously large bandwidths.

Inspec keywords: optical dispersion; optical fibres; optical waveguide theory

Other keywords: single mode fibres; optical fibre transmission; zero mode dispersion; cladded optical fibres; zero material dispersion

Subjects: Fibre optics; Fibre optics and fibre waveguides

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