Patent ID: 6614973
Filing Date: 2003-09-02
Classification: G02B

Abstract:
A monomode optical fiber for an optical fiber cable transmission network with wavelength division multiplexing and a utilization range extending from 1300 nm to 1625 nm, having a zero dispersion wavelength less than or equal to 1370 nm, and presenting at a wavelength of 1550 nm:dispersion C lying in the range 5 ps/nm.km to 11 ps/nm.km; a ratio of dispersion to dispersion slope lying in the range 250 nm to 370 nm; an effective area of not less than 50 &mgr;m2; and a ratio of the square of the effective area over the chromatic dispersion slope greater than 80,000 &mgr;m4.nm2.km/ps.