DISPERSION-COMPENSATING OPTICAL FIBER WITH W-SHAPED INDEX PROFILE

摘要

The invention is directed to a dispersion-compensating optical fiber which can compensate for the chromatic dispersion and dispersion slope of a non-zero dispersion-shifted optical fiber by a short length. The dispersion-shifted optical fiber constitutes an optical transmission line together with a dispersion-compensating optical fiber fusion-spliced thereto. The dispersion-compensating optical fiber has, at a wavelength of 1550 nm, a chromatic dispersion DDCF of -40 ps/nm/km or less and a ratio (DDCF/SDCF) of dispersion slope SDCF to the chromatic dispersion DDCF of 0.005/nm or more.