{"title":"Ultra low-loss optical fiber technology","authors":"S. Ten","doi":"10.1364/OFC.2016.TH4E.5","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Since inception silica based optical fibers have demonstrated dramatic attenuation reduction from 20 dB/km to 0.1460 dB/km. Ultra-low level of attenuation is enabled by silica core fiber design and reduction of the largest attenuation component - Rayleigh scattering.","PeriodicalId":284632,"journal":{"name":"2016 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC)","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2016-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"20","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2016 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1364/OFC.2016.TH4E.5","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 20
Abstract
Since inception silica based optical fibers have demonstrated dramatic attenuation reduction from 20 dB/km to 0.1460 dB/km. Ultra-low level of attenuation is enabled by silica core fiber design and reduction of the largest attenuation component - Rayleigh scattering.