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Design and Fabrication of an Optical Fiber Made of Water
Published on: November 8, 2018
Submarine optical fiber cable: development and laying results
N Kojima1, T Yabuta, Y Negishi
1Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Public Corporation, Ibaraki Electrical Communication Laboratory, Tokai, Ibaraki, 319-11, Japan.
Abstract:
This paper describes the structural design, trial production, and laying results for submarine optical fiber cables that can be deployed in shallow seas between islands and/or channel crossings without repeaters. Structural design methods for the submarine optical fiber cable are proposed, which take into consideration suppressing cable elongation under tension and excess loss under hydraulic pressure. This paper describes good laying results for the cable using this structural design method. The average loss for single-mode fibers was 0.72 dB/km, and the average loss for multimode fibers was 0.81 dB/km for a 10.2-km long cable operated at 1.3-microm wavelength.
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