A single-mode optical fiber has a dispersion coefficient at 1550nm
652), called "dispersion-unshifted" singlemode fiber, has a small chromatic dispersion in the optical window around 1310 nm, but exhibits a higher CD in the 1550 nm region. Chromatic dispersion is a measure of how the time, τ, taken by an optical pulse to travel along a fibre varies with the wavelength, λ, of the light making up the pulse. There are a number of special types of single-mode optical fiber which have been chemically or physically altered to give special properties, such as dispersion-shifted fiber and.
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