Patent ID: 6823123
Filing Date: 2004-11-23
Classification: H04B

Abstract:
An optical fiber transmission link designed to have increased usable bandwidth, the optical fiber transmission link comprising a transmission fiber and at least a first dispersion compensating fiber, DCF1, the first dispersion compensating fiber DCF1 having a dispersion, D1, a dispersion slope, S1, and a relative dispersion slope, RDS1, the transmission fiber having a dispersion, DTransFiber, a dispersion slope, STransFiber, and a relative dispersion slope, RDSTransFiber, and wherein RDS1 is less than RDSTransFiber, DCF1 being coupled with the transmission fiber to form the transmission link, the transmission link having a relative dispersion slope, RDSTrans link, that is less than RDSTransFiber.