Yoshinori Yamamoto

Abstract: We achieved the lowest-ever transmission losses of 0.1419 dB/km at 1560 nm wavelength and 0.1424 dB/km at 1550 nm in a Ge-free silica-core optical fiber. It was an improvement by 4 mdB/km from the previous record realized in 2015. The Ge-free silica core included fluorine co-doping, which helps to reduce disorder in the microscopic glass network structure that causes Rayleigh scattering loss without a significant increase in waveguide imperfection loss. A two-layered polymer coating with an inner layer having lower elastic modulus than before also contributed to the ultralow loss without influence of microbending loss increase even with an enlarged effective area of 147 μm2. The present fiber with ultralow loss and a large effective area benefits an ultralong haul optical transmission system including transoceanic submarine cable systems. We estimate system performance based on the fiber figure of merit theory that the present fiber enables a 0.10 bit/s/Hz increase in spectral efficiency or 7% reduction in the number of repeaters, compared to the previous record-loss fiber.

TL;DR: In this article, an optical module is connected to external optical equipment with low loss, and excess length portion of a pigtail fiber does not cause an obstruction; the optical fiber module includes a functional optical fiber, a receptacle configured and arranged to accommodate the functional optic fiber, and a pig tail fiber that is attached to the functional optical fibre, and disposed so as to be extendable or retractable from the receptacle.

TL;DR: In this article, a set of transmission experiments over seven different uncompensated fiber links carrying a 22-channel Nyquist-WDM signal comb based on polarization-multiplexed 16-quadrature amplitude modulation at RS=15.625 GBd(RB=125 Gb/s).

TL;DR: Lowest-ever 0.1419-dB/km loss at 1560-nm wavelength was realized in a silica-core fiber with 1290-°C low fictive temperature, 147-μm² large effective area and low microbending loss due to soft primary coating.

TL;DR: Record-low loss of 0.149dB/km at 1550nm is realized by pure-silica-core fiber having optimally enlarged Aeff, which indicates record-high figure-of-merit for digital coherent system.